Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Freedom is a subset of survival.

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

I think I'm a different kind of role model for young girls.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.