"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

"There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men."

"What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there."

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

"The best blush to use is laughter. It puts roses in your cheeks and in your soul."

"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself"