Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

If I didn't start painting I would have raised chickens.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

For those who are still merely vegetarian and not yet vegan, I ask, what in heaven's name are you waiting for?

What is important is the future. After 40 years of creation, I continue. This is what I love.

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

After you eat Grandma's cookies, everything in life gets better.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

[on having to lose weight] I thought I'll drink vodka instead of wine because it's less calories!