A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Divorce is just as contagious as Marriage.

Daily mediate the Holy Scriptures.

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?

I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

I don't want people to hate me. I basically do whatever I want. But one of the aspects of what I want is, I want people to like me!

We only get better by pushing ourselves.