Art is love made public.

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.

Competitive drills enhance quickness.

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

In a boom, envy; in a bust, anger.

I take [all slings and arrows] for our movement so that we can have our country back.

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.

I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christ-like characteristics.