All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Do not only believe, affirm and act the sacred words of God.

It's, All in fashion.

Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

I'm going to live in the White House with my family.

I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.