When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

If you also thinks it means I wake up every morning wondering what I did to deserve having you back in my life, well, you'd be right about that too.

Our God is a forgiving God.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

Globalization offers us enormous opportunities in the race to leapfrog in development processes. It also obliges us to set in motion processes which would minimize its risks.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.