The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

What is necessary is never a risk.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.

You and me, we look out for each other. But I will take care of you a little extra, because I am your person, and you will always be my special horse.

Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

He created us for adventure, not ease.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

Forgiveness is a form of the highest love

The only thing I know for sure about the creative process is it always comes back. Magically. When there are no creative juices and nothing is coming to me - if I wait - it comes!

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.