I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn’t getting anywhere – like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department – I would draw the other people.

I paint; I draw and paint – I’ve been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

Your touch and your feel for the game is pretty much gone if you don’t work on it – at least get some shots up or dribble the ball.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut – he’s my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don’t really remember what we talked about.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‚Molecular Biology of the Gene.‘

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I retain what’s interesting to me, but I don’t have a lot of strategic depth.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.