With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

If values are woven into the very concept of education, where is the need for separate value education?

Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings.

Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

Every year, I just want to do better than I did the year before.