"The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power."

“When the object that is produced...the photographic image...has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.”

“Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.”

“Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.”

Source : David Richo (2008). “The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them”, p.179, Shambhala Publications

“Finding God in All Things.”

“I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.”

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

“I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective”

“But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at dock or plover Bear wide, and kick their owners over.”

Source : John Trumbull, “M'Fingal - Canto I”

“Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?”

Source : Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”