It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

Thanks for holding my hand" she said, smiling while wiping away the tears off her face. If only she’d let me hold more than her hand, If only she’d let me hold her heart too.

There is nothing like race, is there?

Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.

The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

Nirvana is right here, before our eyes.

I didn't want to use anything as a crutch and ever have excuses heading into a match.

I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.