Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate expulsion to speak of money, business, politics or the state of one's teeth.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Be kind to people and don’t judge, for you do not know what demons they carry and what battles they are fighting.

Love does whatever it does, whenever it wants to do it.

You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him say something good or keep quiet.

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.