In the Quran it is said that from the tears shed by this great angel [Michael] over the sins of the faithful, cherubim are formed.

The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called God.

So far we still don't know whether angels are ethereal beings of light without substance or if they take a solid human form with real wings which actually enable them to fly.

The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13.

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

Open your box of blessings and take out something to smile about.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

We humans are destined to live with our feet on the earth and our heads in the heavens, and we can never be at peace because we are pulled both ways.

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.