“Whatever you have been given is what someone needs.....”

“When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgment of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself... That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitiude for the gift of life.”

“What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?”

“Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.”

“You may not have been who I picture myself with, but you're exactly what I need- someone I can let loose and be myself with.”

“Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.”