Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

Don't laugh. A girl can dream.

By defining the problem as "hunger, " the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

I have been blessed by God. And if I'm blessed, there is one reason and one reason only, and that is to help others.

Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole.

I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.

I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.