At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.

We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people [when we were young].

In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.

So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was nonexistent.

Every pot is not going to be a masterpiece.

Alix [ MacKenzie] had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.

[Shoji] Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.

It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach.

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

Bernard [Leach] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men [Leach and Shoji Hamada].

And as far as I know about Alix's [MacKenzie] work, I don't believe she ever did any sculptural work at all. It was always pottery.

No matter what is your name, gender, race and nationality, you too are fully capable in turning your dreams into realities.

I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.

Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let Heaven's will be done!

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip" -ID, Anita to Nathaniel

This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow.

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

There's life after acting.