"Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism."

"To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people."

"Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future."

"If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully."

"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."

"If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions."

"One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

"It is a quiet truth that the richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors — an essential principle for the reflective life."