Character is the architect of the being.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Some things happen for a reason, Others just come with the season.

Determination and focus is all it takes to achieve success.

98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed.

It's so simple just like that, 'cause it's a shame that where you're at isn't always where you really wanna be.

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.

I want to make sure that everything that I'm creating, I'm creating it so other people get enjoyment out of it. And that's the reward that you get for that.

When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.

The goal of 'The Purpose Driven Life' is to help people develop a heart for the world.

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.