Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit. Work is love made visible