Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.