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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes you can't fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast.

And there was something else, it seemed, now permanently part of her life. Doubt, and suspicion too, filled all that there was room for in her waking thoughts.

We experience a body experiencing an outer world. But really, the experience of the outer world, as well as the experience of the body, are not happening in two different places.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

My road trips have been to Vegas, but you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

You now have the least amount of time you've ever had, to do everything you've ever wanted to do. Enjoy your life. You only get one

Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.