Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen.

Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?

Ambition strives. At first for goals, until it reaches them. Then for more, because it's insatiable.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.

Regis Philbin is very successful in his own right. We have a new thing where he have chairs and we sit and talk to each other about my career and his career. It works pretty well if I do say so.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.

When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.