I'm tired, but proud.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

I paint life as I would like it to be.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

I just wanted to do something important.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

I'm not trying to be mean, ' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

I, for one, believe that revenue has to increase. I think every American would pay more if they thought spending was going to be cut and the budget brought to balance.

My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves

As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.

She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.

Each day begins with a prayer of thank you.