we who determine how quickly time passes.

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

What a plague love is!

An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government.

If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

The secret of landscapes isn't creation...It's maintenance.

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.