A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

He who extend heaven’s reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God’s intention

We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

If you clear that negative feeling and forgive yourself, then you can see the world from a different lens. You stop attracting that same type of experience. You can set yourself free.

Life disappoints. Everybody knows that. But must it horrify?

When everyone has let you down... You still have ice cream.

Always stay in your own movie.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

With great power comes great responsibilty.