I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices other are unwilling to.

Getting to the linebackers is difficult. Blocking them is another challenge.

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.

Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy.