To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

There is peace even in the storm

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.

Only the living can learn from their mistakes.

The truth cannot be woven out of a string of lies.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

Hip-Hop started out in the heart

There's little comfort in the wise

The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one.

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.