One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Find the light within you through meditation and introspection, and you will illuminate your life from within.

We are still living with the ideology of compromise, not with the ideology of recognition

I think cults never stop being interesting and I'm intrigued by how we all do a tiny bit of submitting to a larger group - and how they can sneak up on you.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.

I recorded this album in a windowless room in Brooklyn by myself. I think Chamber of Reflection sums the album up better than Salad Days to tell you the truth.

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.

I like to quote things.