It's very nice to feel. You're nothing. You're just nothing when you're near a volcano.

I have seen so many eruptions in the last 20 years that I don't care if I die tomorrow.

Most volcanologists die in bed.

The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world.

Hope, positive wonders.

I wish dogs understood: 'We're going in five minutes.

I was in a supermarket and I saw Paul Newman's face on salad dressing and spaghetti sauce....I thought he was missing.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.