We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Art might be beautiful even though the artist is not.

What does it mean to be alive?

Life begins at fifty but so does bad eyesight arthritis and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same listeners.

There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

Jeremy, are we going to play your games?

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

Working in a family business, which obviously The Trump Organization is, is an incredible thing, but it's complicated. It's complex.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.