"I don't keep up with the art world. It's out there and if I did that too much, I wouldn't get my own work done. So I look at it every so often, "Oh, yeah, oh, okay," and go back to work. Life isn't that long. You got to do what you can when you have it."

“Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles.”

Source : Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.206, Pickle Partners Publishing

“we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.”

“At my hotel room, my friend came over and asked to use the phone. I said Certainly. He said Do I need to dial 9 I say Yeah. Especially if it's in the number. You can try four and five back to back real quick.”

“Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.”

“The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.”

“Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.”

“Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.

“I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.”