What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

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.

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

The Christian never works toward victory, he always works FROM victory.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.

I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.

One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know and understand, coupled with an openness to new experiences.