Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

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.

It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.

I have a definition of success.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm." "Voyons, do you think that is what I like?

Karate is like boiling water, if you do not heat it constantly, it will cool.

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

You know, I do projects that I really care about. I hope I'll stand by that until the day I die!

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.