What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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.

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.

And I call Saks Fifth Ave-y home. That is where a real bad Barbie roam.

As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.

Our goal is to make God look good in the universe.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.