Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.

It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.

She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room in you for fear.

Sometimes your instinct takes you where your body can't..أحيانا غريزتك تأخذك إلى حيث لا يستطيع جسمك

The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.

There will be water if God wills it.