... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that "sad" people must be coddled like helpless toddlers.

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.

Drawing is your understanding of form.

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life.

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.