It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.

I see my mother exactly as she is – sad and strong, tense and trying.

You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

... there is one primary purpose of a Christian's business: to serve God.

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

There's nothing harder than going on TV and saying something that you don't believe. I don't do that anymore.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.