Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what y ou are expecting in life.

But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness?

Knowing too much had turned him into something else, and he wasn't sure he liked this newer him, although he felt he could not stop being this other him, darker.

Hope and trust are beautiful things. One gives a person the will to live, the other makes it worth living.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.