My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.

Do it because it's right, not because it's right for your resume.

The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.

He sips his drink and it leaves his handlebar mustache dripping like a cattle dog come outta a river.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.

Love's not the point. We just do what we always do, and we get by.

The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.

I try so hard to be the best mom that I can be and usually I'm always thinking about how to better my son's life.