The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

There is peace even in the storm

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Hope is the passion to receive your heart’s desires.

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important.

I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes. "Not claustrophobic people, Tris.

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.