the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

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.

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

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.

My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will.

Oh, let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

Love is greater than the oceans with full of passions.

Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!

I'm happy if I can help anybody. I'm more than happy to, but you have to find your own path.

Modeling is about fantasy, getting people to buy into a lifestyle and a vision.

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.

They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.