From out of pain, beauty.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

For everything that's known about Lyme disease, there are still an extraordinary number of unknowns in some fairly fundamental areas.

Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

The sum of all that lives is God.

Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

Nobody feels anybody else's pains because they're not their.