It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

I'm just showing my personality in my clothing.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.

Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

A photograph has edges the world does not.

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.