Maturity means being able to tolerate, on all sorts of planes, uncertainty and not knowing.

The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.

Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life.

Work and play is the same thing just with a different perspective.

There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

When you listen to people who have accomplished so much, the one thing they always say is, "I didn't let anybody stop me." I really, really, steadfastly believe that.

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.