Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Sunlight is painting.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.