Time is not important, but art is.

It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Money or even power can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

If someone came to me and said, "Your strategy in your post-presidency is brilliant," as if I had figured out a way to make me look better, to me, that analysis is amusing.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

We all need a meaning to our life.

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.