When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision…

When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre i…

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

Hope, of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beami…