If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

The day hope shall die, perplexity shall kill so many people. In so far as hope is alive, keep hoping!

Don't expect people to understand your purpose when God didn't give them your vision.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

As long as you believe what you’re doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.