It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.

I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.

Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside.

After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

I love Los Angeles. It has a lot to offer culturally and has amazing restaurants.

The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Four times Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years, a modern American record.

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.