We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.

Sleep, Maya, " he murmured softly. "Sleep, my love, and I promise that I will come looking for you.

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.