The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

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.

I think love and hate intertwine far too much for humanity's own good, yet we choose to compare them like vinegar and water.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system

Do what you dream of doing and never lose sight of that

It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.

If God wants it, it will happen.

You cannot leave the house to take the garbage out without full-on makeup and your hair done. You have to fight for your man out there.

The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.