I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

The real safety net of life is community, family and nature.

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.

A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. -Clary, pg.243-

The deciding differentiator in how you drive LOYALTY lies within your greatest asset....your people.

I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.

Put one foot in front of the other, focus on the little goal right in front of you, and almost anything is possible.

Put your trust in the living God and all will be right in time and eternity.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.