Why assume that to look is to see?

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.

If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.

Life is a school of the spirit.

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.