A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

No religion can fully accept another religion, that’s the one belief all religions share

There is a rest that comes when you live out of your sound. Silence is no longer something to be avoided. It signifies a soul at rest.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame and the brunt of the storm.

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

Nothing makes men sharper than want.

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.