"The distinctions of fine art bore me to death."

"To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time."

"Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk."

"When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does."

"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"It is a unyielding truth that the richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"When you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"True innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."