You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

There are two things that grant a bit of immortality: books and children

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

I went through a normal kind of late teens, early 20s drinking, but it was a choice I made, because I didn’t think it was very good for my life.

The secret to success: Do what you say you're going to do.

Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.