Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

The best way for you to grow is to sack yourself.

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist.

I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It's an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

Make your service systems so strong that everyone looks like a genius.

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.

Commitment achieves today what yesterday was impossible.