...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

Simplicity is complexity resolved

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.

Lord guide us along the best pathways.

Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.

By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.