One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

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.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.