The more you love, the more you suffer.

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.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

Determine your destination, choose a path, now with all your heart start going there.

At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.

A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.

God helps the brave.

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.

You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive.

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.