Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember darkness does not always equate to evil just like light does not always bring good.

How my heart missed beating like this. For him. Only for him.

She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.

I think we have to stop using the expression "alt-right." It's ridiculous. It's racist, fascist, nationalist.

Faith is reason at rest in God.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.