Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Knowing your ignorance is far better than knowing what you know! Understanding the path and will of God is far better than mastering your own path.

Hurt shouldn’t pile up like this inside of someone. No one should suffocate beneath pain on top of pain. You should have time to breathe, time to scream it out until it doesn’t exist anymore.

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

Plodding wins the race.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.