Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

Not enough, " he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won't be enough.

I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one’s own limitations.

Love? Love is for children and poor people...

Their love was like a prison, and I the willing inmate.

I was always this guy who appreciated and loved women and supported them and all those little things that were female-skewed, strong women parts.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

I enjoy when I strike someone out. I enjoy when I do my job.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

A picture is a poem without words

Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.