"As every divided kingdom falls, so every..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.”

“We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.”

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.”

“Sometimes people feel mind is merely the - in some animal, the energy or something from the brain. Now there are little sort of curiosities or I think doubt sometimes a sheer sort of mental attitude, some change in our brain. So these fields, now scientists are showing some interest.”

“Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.”

“If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.”

“An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.”

“Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.”

“Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.”