The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

I have no home but me.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

Stay focused, accept everything as perfect and keep moving forward toward the direction of your goals.

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine.

Tobacco and religious organisations.

When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

Only when Shiva is united with Shakti does he have the power to create -

The Spirit is speaking strongly to me for you to place a $50 offering on the altar, when you do, God will do a now miracle.

I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.