It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

Beso me without desire so I may hear her coo, that grew in you

Just like breathing and eating, having gratitude for your big and small blessings is another thing that you should never live your life without.

Everything is music for the born musician.

I suddenly realise that it doesn't matter how far I go, or how lost I am, or how lonely I feel. I fit in here. I always will.That's how I know I'm home.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.