Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.

There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

Kindness happens - It begins with me.

Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn't even realize was caged...and forgiveness destroys the cage.

Time passes irrevocably.

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.