“Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.”

“When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgment of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself... That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitiude for the gift of life.”

“The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space -- sculpture and painting.”

“Whatever you do in your life, always go the distance.”

“Whatever path you choose, whatever star you wish to pray, people will judge you...live your life on your own terms”

“There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.”