We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.

He was so glad he didn’t go through with his plan to end himself. What an idiot. Look at how much he would’ve missed if he’d followed through.

Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss.

Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?

Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.

Honour the difficult.

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

Simple techniques for meditation can involve repetition of spiritually focused words, thoughts or ideas that help one feel at peace mentally and physically.

I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.