I have but one life to give to adventure.

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.

So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

In an era where digital or virtual is the default, the actual coming together into a physical space has to be an experience that you don't want to miss.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

The rich don't have children; they have heirs.

I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

I’m going to carry you now,” he told her, “so we can move even faster. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.