The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on forecasters.

It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

The journey is the reward.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.

He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.