Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.