Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

I do not fear pain.

When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

If we believe in them, love them and trust them, they see who they are through our eyes.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.