Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

Skill is less important than awareness.

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

A river flow freely from its source.

Nothing has ever been achieved without trying

We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

What have you done for YOURSELF this year to create a better life?

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.