I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own.

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

They memorize everything and learn... nothing.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.