If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

...we're not eighteen anymore. We've lived. We've created things that last – things of joy, and things of burden.

She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.

But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen’s clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as ourgame plan ever was—to make food that tasted good.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results.