I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.

It is always better to make your own mistakes and not someone else's.

I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.

Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.

There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

You got to be bad before you're good.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.