"I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain."

“Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.”

“Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.”

“For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.”

“In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.”

“Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.”

“For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.”

“No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.”

“In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or confiscated. Only in Great Britain did it prove possible to float the idea that aristocratic property was in some magical and strictly intangible way the people's property also. The fact that hundreds of thousands of men and women today are willing to accept that privately owned country houses and their contents are part of Britain's national heritage is one more proof of how successfully the British elite reconstructed its cultural image in an age of revolution.”

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.177, Yale University Press