All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

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

Take forgiveness slowly. Don't blame yourself for being slow. Peace will come.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Some people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

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