Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

Failures not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

I go, and I do my work, and I try to do the best I can, and I collect my money, and I go home, and then I go on to the next thing. That's my attitude.

It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

I'm sorry I hurt your hand...with my face." -Bobby Pendragon

I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.

Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.