All education must be self-education.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Do whatever you do intensely.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

You should not think on a small scale, you are a gift to the entire planet earth

Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world?... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.

Does anyone remember how we used to get cash before ATM's? Did we have to go inside the bank? Then what? We lived like apes!

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

Men without joy seem like corpses.

The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

How many prison years in the years since Christ!