Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

CHAOS IS THE MASTER ALL MUST BOW TO IN THE END

I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

Adventure is the essence of life.

Saying she should be the one I see every time that I'm here, but when am I really even here?

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

I had an opportunity many, many times to go to the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. Jerry Buss asked me many times and you know what, looking back that was stupid of me not going there.

I took a long period off to be a mom.

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.