You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.

Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.

The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.

My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.

Take a moment to think... See - logically.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

That's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with the terrain.

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable Faith means believing the unbelievable And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

Leaders are made one response at a time.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.