The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

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.

Most diseases are caused not so much by what we eat, but more by what is eating us.

Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. "NO?

I've always thought that if I bury my feelings now, I can dig them up later when I have time to deal with them.

Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults.

I can always tell how stupid someone is by how certain they are about what they're saying.

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.