One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

most men know what they hate few what they love

If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness!

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

Those who don’t want to take risks in life end up been the losers.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.

It is a great feeling of course to have scored so many runs, but that is what I play cricket for: to score lots of runs.