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“I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.”
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“Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.”
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“I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?”
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“When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.”
Source : "Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert" by Olivia Laing, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2015. 
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“You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?”
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“What is life if not a gamble?”
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“I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?”
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“What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.”
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“what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.”
Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
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“Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.”
Source : "Christian Worldview". Interview with Julia Duin, www.washingtontimes.com. July 03, 2003.
