The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life - and for your love.

I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.

I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.

I've come out of seeing death and chosen to focus on the life that's sprouting everywhere, like flowers. And I want to help feed the flowers.

I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.

You get in life that which is your deep driving desire.

I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.

Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

You can't predict the future, but you can follow your dreams.

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad with a Torah of his own.