A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

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.

Principles that drive equilibrium in nature's design also power human design.

If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.

Adversity is opportunity inside out.

Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

Art is ultimately schizophrenic.

I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.