In practice I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something they thought ugly.

It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn't mean you have to give up all the other important things.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

We are the ones who create the messes in our heads. It does not come from outside.

A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.

Reprogram yourself every minute of each day with thoughts that make you grow. When you're feeling irritated or confused, try to laugh at yourself. Laugh out loud at this woman tormented by doubts and anxieties, convinced that her problems are the most important thing in the world.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.