It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.

Every book is a unique experience.

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

People have their own ideas how about they should appear.

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there.

I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.

In between your failure-treeAnd your triumph-tree, The tree that is growingIs known as your patience-tree.

Focus is the soul of success.

I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.

I think the culture is changing. An example of that is that the commanders truly want the very best person for the job regardless of gender.