"Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks."

“Mitt Romney has a history of being a great job creator. Secondly, he was a great governor. He went from billions of dollars in the hole when he became governor to billions of dollars in surplus when he left. And he went from the loss of tens of thousands jobs when he became governor to the creation of 40,000 new jobs when he left office.”

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.”

“A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.”

“I was a really pretentious teenager,”

“The president doesn't get an automatic pay raise, so they can't freeze it for him. But it also does extend the pay rate - they pay increases or pay freeze for pay increases for members of Congress. They've had a pay freeze since 2009, but most civil servants will see a small pay bump in 2016 thanks to a separate order from President Obama.”

Source : "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

“There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.”

“Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.”

“There are so many rules in the art world. I don't like rules and I break them all the time. I don't care if people think I'm overexposed. What I care about is if I'm going to run out of energy. Overexposure is only a problem if you are drained of energy and cannot come up with new ideas. Every artist has to recognize that and know when to stop for a moment.”