It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

There is a love that binds us allIt's in our blood, it's who we areand it's nested in the branches of this treeand it's rooted in the Earth where we keepall of our stories

I flourish when I realize I'm already complete.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.

The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

Education has always been very important to me.

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

Everything may not be OK but if God is with you, you will be OK.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.