I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.

The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

What we consider to be different depends on what we consider to be the norm.