{Iola Speaking} "The only time I seem to get you to actually say something is over coffee, so let’s latte.

Anyone can exist. Most fools do. It takes guts to truly Live.

Joy is not something you look for, it is simply something you have to choose to apply.

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!