You are the artist and the art.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.

I was a very confident little kid.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.