If all of us in the world just shared love, just a little, charity foundations wouldn’t be needed.

Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.

We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.

There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph, we can’t enjoy them, the flash overexposes them and they disappear.

We give up too soon.

Words do not solve problems, actions do.

It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.

After I workout I always wash my face. It's important to keep your pores clean after a good sweat.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.

Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development