Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.

Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

If it makes you happy, then you succeeded already.

I figured I only had about two seconds to live. It’s amazing how many thoughts you can have in two seconds.

I fell in love... she caused a type of smile within me that nothing else can or has.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.