life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.