...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

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 sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.

Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire.

Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results.

I'll say American for now. I really have no preference, though. Nationality is nothing. It's all about the girl - but she has to be curvy!

miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free.

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.