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.

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

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

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.

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.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Some say one thing and do another. Others say one thing and do it just for spite. I say nothing and do whatever the hell I want.

We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

I've learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

I'm a perimeter player. I'm more like a Ray Allen.

It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best