Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

Whether you like it or not, your life is passing away.

What's life without a little risk?

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.

If you're injecting fear into other people, then you're trying to kill their minds. You're trying to get them to stop thinking.

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me -- the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?