The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it.

I was considering running for political office.

I'm a theorist, not an institutionalist.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

Whether two birds of a feather fly or fall, it'll be together.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.