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

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.

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.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

Writing is like talking to yourself, just in a way that makes it look like you're not crazy!

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

As we prepare our homes to be places where the Spirit is welcome, we will be prepared to feel more 'at home' when we enter the House of the Lord.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

Gangsta rappers can't fight, so they rap about guns.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.