At the end of the day, you cant have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

...see the blessing and beauty that you are.

Serrated, adj. And you said, "I'm not sure we can.

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.

Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.

Russian men have a saying: "Women are like buses..." That's it.