"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."

"It is a humble truth that a heart touched by genuine kindness never loses its warmth — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"True knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry."

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."

"Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest."