When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny.

Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

Humility has the toughest hide.

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

If men have a smell it's usually an accident.

Can you keep up with the lingo

You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.