Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.

Some men prefer the heady tang of revenge to the comfort of cash.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

"If you're a Republican Party that's fairing poorly, sometimes you have to win ugly.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability