"It is a essential truth that time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'"

"Serenity begins the moment you cease demanding that the external world conform — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream."

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."