A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

I certainly do not begin with any meaning. It is as though my hands do all the thinking.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work. It's about the writer you're becoming while writing.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

How can I create a better world? The more you reflect, the more your life will move into the answer.

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city