True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

Patience is a firm faith.

Passion is not such an emotion as a destiny.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

I believe that things we cry over because they are lost, can never be compared to things we will receive because of our loses. God is a great restorer!

With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless.

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.

Only the unique is universal.