There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Imagination takes us to the invisible world.

In this town, a successful marriage is one that lasts longer than ice.

No one spoke more about hell than Jesus did, and the hell He came to save men from was not only a hell on earth . . .it was something to come.

You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.

I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.