It's not who you know, but who you are that matters most.

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

I aim to remind the warrior within us all to navigate through the unknown that we may meet the morning, improved and unenslaved.

My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

An old novel has a history of its own.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.

In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.