Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.
There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.
People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.
History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.
Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.
Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.
You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.
To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.
If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?
God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?
Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.
In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.
Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.
Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?
There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.
The road to success is wherever people need another road.
My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.
Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.
A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.
If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.
