When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.

If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it's very hot. The gray allows the eye to do the visual mixing.

Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

I am happy to have all the books I need to read.

Amphibians—the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.

Kindness is the best prayer.

Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.

To find the joy of life, let us love our life unconditionally.

Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

What studies please, what most delight, And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.

Resisting is worth doing.

Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.