The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

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.

Strive for perfection, knowing it will never be achieved.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

Everything God does is purposeful. And since God is in each of us, each of us has a purpose.

Don’t hold on to the old when you're being led somewhere new. Come out of your comfort zone.

In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.

Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.