Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.

The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).

The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.