Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking

You need to accept your yesterday, so u can be happy on your today, risk and failures will always be there, and so is success.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

From that day on, I ran from spot to spot.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.