Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.

God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.

Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.

All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.

The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.

ALL that man has touched, will be used... For both Good and evil. Such is the way of the world.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

The further left you go, the meaner the spirit

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.

A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!