Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.