In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

Certainly it is not a democracy.

The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.

Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.

Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics – or in humans, for that matter.