One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Men who fish at shallow waters can never have enough fish to feed their family talk less of a nation or a generation

In movies that tackle these political issues, there are far more interesting themes to be explored than partisan politics, which is what we get on cable news every second of every day.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Endurance cannot be produced by determination alone; endurance is a product of physical exercise.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

I hate talking about football. I just do it, you know?

They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that... really!

Clinton is someone who understands trade, who understands we want more of it, but we want it under a different set of rules.

Not even need and love can defeat fate.