I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.

The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.

When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.

Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.

Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment.

No! Wait! I've got a better idea...""Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock.""And your point is...""Let's broaden the definition of 'necessary'.

I want them to see the magic of how everything is related: To walk out into the night and see the Green Corn Moon levitate across the sky.

Hardships poverty and want are the best incentives and the best foundation for the success of man.

As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.

Tragedy is a literary concept.

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

I will believe that what God has placed inside me is superior to the mountains that stand in my way

A man that runs away may fight again.

He doesn’t anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi) Yes, I’m more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron)

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.