You can trust a dog with your life...but not your lunch

I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer feel good.

A home without a dog is merely a shelter.

Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.

Don't ever be honest about who you are—and I mean that as a life rule, not just in this instance.

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

I think we all have had better days in competition.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.

Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun - not to kill someone, but to stop a crime.

I'm a really firm believer that anyone can get pretty good at anything if you just do it all the time and you just keep working at it.

Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.