Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

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.

A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings

Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system.

I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.