There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.
A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.
I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.
I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
Something that is yours forever is never precious
I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides. ]
Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.
The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly irresponsible, or we can be caring and compassionate. God says, "I have set before you life and death. . . Choose life. "
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.