Michael Sliney

“It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.” —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 

“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” Robert Schumann

“So let us spread before his feet, not garments or soulless olive branches, which delight the eye for a few hours and then wither, but ourselves, clothed in his grace, or rather, clothed completely in him.” – Andrew of Crete

”When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince