It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.

By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

On the shores of tranquility, meet me between now and again.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

They never differentiate between drug users and drug addicts... I've done most drugs there are socially, I never had a problem.

When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

Abortion ... interferes with God's plan-a plan He willed before He created the universe.