Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

If you have life, you have everything.

If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger.

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

And if we fail? (Delphine) It’ll suck to be human. (Madoc)

God, you are my refuge into eternity

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.