… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

God wants to bring victory to a people who recognize who brought it.

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.

It was a life I didn’t want to leave behind.It was a life I didn’t want to forget.

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

This above all: be true, be true, be true.

Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.