They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.

Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.

Passion is essential for a meaningful existence. Life is about what you feel.

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

The bad mood fairy comes to annoy you only when you are actually in a good position, but don't yet realise it!

Regardless of our cleverness, our achievements, and our gadgets, we are spiritual paupers without God.

There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.

I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

Happiness dies when not shared

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

The ability to make and keep promises is the key aspect to trust in a relationship.