"Our generation is a wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed." — Abraham Isaac Kook, Jewish Torah scholar, born 1865
"Therefore, the pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom." — Abraham Isaac Kook, Jewish Torah scholar, born 1865
"If the Temple was destroyed due to baseless hatred, then we shall rebuild ourselves, and the world with us, with baseless love." — Abraham Isaac Kook, Jewish Torah scholar, born 1865
"I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded." — Elaine de Kooning, American painter, born 1918
"A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image." — Elaine de Kooning, American painter, born 1918
"The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves." — Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter, born 1904
"Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself." — Jeff Koons, American artist, born 1955
"There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup." — Ted Kooser, American poet, born 1939
"I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings." — Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician, born 1878
"Spiritual life is not about knowing much, but about loving much." — Jack Kornfield, American vipassana teacher, born 1945
"In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived; how well we have loved; how well we have learned to let go." — Jack Kornfield, American vipassana teacher, born 1945