The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

I'm amazed how my soul is served the messages I need to be fed at exactly the time I'm in need. When I'm open.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

Things were very different back in 1992. There was unrest in the Middle East, we had a gridlocked Congress, and everybody was talking about Bill Cosby.

I just want to make something that I love and people will respect.

It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.

I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

Every great love starts with a great story.