The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

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.

They're book addicts.

When the world becomes peaceful for the birds, the birds will sing a harmonious chorale

The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

I don't hate America. I love America. I want it to be better. The only way we can get it to be better is to realistically criticize what's wrong with it.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone.

It was an agreement between Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran and not between Iraq and Iran.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.