Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

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.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

Adding FUN to learning creates the best educational experience possible.

At weddings old people poke me and say, "you're next, " so I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No, ' though all the world say 'Yes.'

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n roll thing going on.

It's just so hard when you have a connection with someone and they just leave and you don't know if you'll ever see them again.

Every writer has to write his speech.

You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect.