Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

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.

Luck, I believe, is where preparation meets opportunity.

Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

It may sound weird, but I don't really look for culture, particularly in an American city.

It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them.

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.