To know life, one must love many things.

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.

Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts.

Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But it’s never too late to get it back.

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.