Our thoughts and emotions strain our life force, drain our energy, carrying us away, cutting us from the people we are with and the beauty of places we are in.

When I look up at the clouds I see so many animals, mostly sheep who have lost their limbs and heads.

A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

Know the best and highest choices for health and more often choose those things.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

And nature must obey necessity.