I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.

A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

We don't help people by showing them our trophies. We help them by showing them our scars.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."(King Pelles the Sure)

You see, ” she interrupted his blank stare, “it doesn’t take much effort to be kind. It only takes the ability to recognize where kindness is needed.

Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.

It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!