So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

Talk about life - but in your own way.

I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.

Paint ideas, paint thought.

While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will you be?

I'm safer with the Tailor and Pretty Will and every thief and cutthroat in the bend than I am with Miss Josephine Montfort of Gramecy Park.

I am two of the most powerful words; for what you put after them shapes your reality.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.