You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family.

You fade slowly till no one sees you disappear.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

When you yearn for God with intensity, He will come to you.

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.