I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

Embrace the sweetness of life like a gift honeycomb from the hive.

There are enough blessings for everyone.

If you were an animal, what kind would it be?""A dog. I'd take people in my teeth like rats and shake some sense into them.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt, ' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to call him and he was more than willing to participate with me. I just thank God for him.

Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.

I'm a dad and that's pretty important.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.