Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

Great art changes you.

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

Prejudice is always dangerous.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.

Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

What makes me unique is that, I'm normal.