Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.