Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

I paint life as I would like it to be.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

I just wanted to do something important.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

Always stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.

Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you’re the best person for the job

Not everyone was privileged to see another sunrise like you did, so before you start complaining remember that the breath of life isn't for sale.

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.

We don't know something called elections in Libya. We are a muslim country. We don't know something called colonialism and political parties.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.