Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Let me burn out for God ... prayer is the great thing. Oh that I may be a man of prayer!

In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Saying 'Preach the Gospel Daily, use words if necessary' is like saying 'Feed the hungry, use food if necessary.'

Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.