What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

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 don't know if any famous people follow me, but their daughters definitely do.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

All the support from all my friends, All my family over the years, I appreciate it.

If you have a pap smear every year, there's no reason to develop cervical cancer.

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.