Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

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.

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

You will choose your path, or perhaps it will choose you.

Never ran away for the sake of scars.

Pop art is for everyone.

Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky!

Producing is like pushing jello up a hill on a hot day.

A man that runs away may fight again.

I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.