I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.

I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two where God has not.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dream, and I try to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

I realized there was a better way to broadcast the news that empowered people to believe they could overcome challenges.

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

Those who carry the vessels of the Lord must be clean, must be holy (Isa. 52:11).

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.