Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

Everyone in my family always spares one another's feelings. It leaves little room for honesty.

You were always the Harry to my Hermione, flushing away my erratic anxiety with the rudest sense of realism.

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don’t become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.

I don't mind when I hit a ball in the woods. I think of it as an adventure. That's when golf really starts to get interesting.