Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.

A selfish life isn’t God’s purpose for you

People don’t just appear on the beach unless they’re demigods or gods or really, really lost pizza delivery guys. (It’s happened—but that’s another story.)

Listen to the child in you and follow its innocence

I believe I was extremely greedy.

The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.