"It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement."

“Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?”

“Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It's just a part of our nature to hope.”

Source : "Elizabeth Edwards Can’t Have It Both Ways" by Jane Podesta, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2009.

“We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.”

Source : "Sometimes Youthful Stupidity is a Better way to Find Happiness than Making Mature Choices" by Frank Schaeffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2014.

“Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.”

“I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.”

“The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.”

“The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.”

Source : "Dynamic Work Simplification" by W. Clements Zinck, (p. 12), 1971.