If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

I paint life as I would like it to be.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

I just wanted to do something important.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.I do have a knack for finding great women.

Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.

God entrusts His riches to mature sons and not to spiritual babies.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

Rich people believe 'I create my life.' Poor people believe 'Life happens to me.'

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

When you have answers, when everything has a reason, when it makes sense to an analytical person, you're going to be more successful. You're going to be more comfortable.

Life is a flower of which love is honey.