Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

I paint life as I would like it to be.

I just wanted to do something important.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

When I'm on the court, I'm a follower.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

Never ignore someone who loves you and cares about you. 'Cause one day you may realize you lost the moon while counting stars.

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

Wit puts politicians at risk.

Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.

I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

Look at that fat kid, in the audience. You want some pie you little fatty? I strongly dislike fat kids. Security, please remove him, that fat kid, over there, by the pies.