Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...

Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her.

When two or three are gathered in unison, when all awareness is in total harmony, something magical will happen.

There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack... you will make marvelous demonstrations.

I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.

But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.

Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.

When you stop admiring yourself and let the eyes of the heart open your vision to vast other worlds then all you do, will become admirable

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.