But my longevity is due to my good timing.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

O that a man might knowThe end of this day's business ere it come!But it sufficeth that the day will endAnd then the end is known.

'Tis man's to fight but Heaven's to give success.

All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.

Man was created to complete the horse.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

The first loss is the best loss.

I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.