work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

What? Quinn's one of them? I just thought he was an a*shole!

Karma, simply put, is an action for an action ... good or bad.

Make us happy and you make us good.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

The real miracle is a man who can walk with God every day ... When a person walks with God, he finds joy in the everyday things he does. Gradually his life begins to expand.

Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you.

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.

I'm from California, and still live in LA.