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.

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.

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.

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

Vitamin D can be considered as vitamin of "defense" since it cures several diseases.

Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat when the boss's favour has been withdrawn.

I don't like playing playstation. It seems like a waste of time to me. Reading, instead, leaves something inside you.

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.

Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

He who can be a good son will be a good father.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.