January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

I have no home but me.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

All suffering is caused by one belief....the belief in separation

I think a friend is someone who helps you change for the better. And whether you see them once a day or once a year, if it's a true friend, it doesn't matter.

Wherever you are, for sure, you are everywhere.

Words will only ruin you, if you allow them.

CommunicationIs a work of artSome are normally born with itSome may need a chart

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

A romantic date for me is sitting in pajamas and being with a guy with whom I can be myself.

The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.