The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

There is never a question of what to paint but only how to paint.

Life becomes the way it is lived

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

If you give your Self a chance, your Self will give you all the chances.

If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change.

Unconsciously we grow to look upon the sick as people of another world.

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good.