Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

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.

To respect my nature is to know my nature.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?

I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me.

I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]