I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

There is peace even in the storm

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

My deservedness is more than your expectation.

Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we're in the process of it right now.

Parenting at its best comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic involuntary unconditional love.

After seeing Avatar the movie, you see how far it can go to be right. But you kind of see that and go, "Oh, there's the bar now, and how close can we get?"

- I hate to break this to you, Cameron, but you are only human. - Shh... I've been trying to keep that under wraps for years.

I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but it is the most exciting way.

you wanted saving didn't you?

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.