So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

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.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

True wisdom can never find fault or a person at fault.

Individualistic people die on the great curves

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.

Shawn Michaels has left the building.

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

Grief best is pleased with grief's society.

If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.