The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

If you don't have a plan, you will never find enough time to finish a task.

To be strong, love. To win trust, believe.

Tomorrow is Election Day. That's the day we Americans wake up, consider our options, and then remember we didn't register to vote.

You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down.