Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Folks, tomorrow America will get to hear those four words we've been waiting for: "Former president George Bush".

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them.

It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.

Customers must trust an organisation and its people.