The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

How can I seek forgiveness for sins I haven't committed yet?

My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.

Oh, Alan Ryves, " she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.

Hating a main character for being too weak is like expecting a human to be able to do everything. Stories aren't all sunshine and rainbows.

I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.

Faith is something a lot of people relate to as a God-thing, but it's also faith in yourself.

We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish.

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.