Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.

The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.