In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.

Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.