When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

It (prayer) dispels frivolity and drives away all skin-deep forms of worship, and makes worship a serious and deep-seated service, impregnating body, soul, and spirit with its heavenly infusion.

He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

You're only as good as your last picture.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The ten thousand things offer no offence.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.