Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

There is no shame in black beauty.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

You are the agent of the kingdom of God

Pain is an old friend who left briefly and has now returned. Starvation without sustenance, I had grown acquaint. Satiety was a stranger who invaded my deepest being, and now I cannot live without.

Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour.

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.