The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.

I rather now strive to reach rather than wait to receive!

You have to risk your heart to find love. It’s the price we pay for a chance at bliss.

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

We must always be disturbed by the truth.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

You have a different audience. Your personal energy is different because some days you're energized, some nights you might be tired so that affects your memory and your emotion.

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.