Freedom, I thought, comes only to the successful

Switzerland is only bearable covered with snow, " Aunt Augusta said, "like some people are only bearable under a sheet.

Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times.

Family is not limited by blood or marriage. It's limited to love and bond to one another in one's heart

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.

I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

I want to live life on my own terms.