If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.

Fair only counts with people who are fair.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.

Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.

Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.