The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence.

Even when someone hurts you, find the strength to forgive them, understand them, and let it go.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security.

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.