To require perfection is to invite paralysis.

The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.

The unfolding over time of a great idea is like the growth of a fractal crystal, allowing details and refinements to multiply endlessly — but only in ever-increasing scale.

For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

Well, the only reason we’re friends is because you can rock a tweed suit, ” she informed, tone mock serious. “So if you want to keep me around, I expect more tweed.

A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly.

This world is wrong. We have to correct it.

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.

And it only matters how true you are. Be true to yourself and follow your heart.

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be just a wave (...) Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

The parade was here, but it disappeared around a corner.

Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.