“In love, there’s sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body.”

It is important to express oneself…provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they’re not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It’s a dream that won’t come true.

I don’t think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that’s all I would have asked for, for I know I’m worth as much as they.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

I have nothing to hide. I am a servant of the living God. He is the only one I answer to.

The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor’s own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.

Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

Make films whenever and however you can – don’t take no for an answer.

Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.

Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, “What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?” And I say, “Well, they always usually ask, ‘Where do you see yourself in five years, 10 years, 15 years?’ And it’s good to have an answer for that.”

I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.