The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

What is a self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.