What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing!

The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion

We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want.

Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.