Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Don't lose today by worrying about tomorrow!!!

You can count your days or make your days count for something. The choice is yours.

We do not have control over what happens to us in life, but we do have control over how we chose to respond.

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

I don't want to shove the Bible down someone's throat with my music. That's not my goal.