When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure.

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.

To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.

Look where you are going because you will inevitably go where you are looking.

Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.

PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.

I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.

I think it's very wrong to have the mass murder, every single day, of millions of animals.

All the plants in my house are dead - I shot them last night. I was teasing them by watering them with ice cubes.

It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.