Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

The main thing is to win.

I learned from the guys before me - Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

Failure can only open more doors for you as a person and as growth and life.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Your opinions are your symptoms.