Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Patience is also a form of action.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he's just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that's what I mean.

International law in its counter-hegemonic uses is very important in any domain where issues of legitimacy are significant, but is rarely able to have a corresponding behavioural impact.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.