Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

You carry greatness disguised in tiny potentials.

Create from the heart.

...your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I'm always turning over...

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

too many maniacs not enough michelangelos

I am a true psychic. In my family it's the norm. My sister and mother are always 'in my head' and say or do the same things I'm doing at the same time.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.