Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.