"Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know."

“We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.”

“I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.”

Source : Robert Motherwell, Dore Ashton, Jack D. Flam, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1983). “Robert Motherwell”, Abbeville Pr

“I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures”

“We must change to master change.”

“It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow & people started to listen so thank you.”

Source : "Sam Smith's Grammy Acceptance Speech For Best Pop Vocal Album Is One To Remember" by Joanna Adams, www.huffingtonpost.ca. February 8, 2015.

“Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.”

“How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?”

“It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.”