Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life - and for your love.

The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.

I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.

I've come out of seeing death and chosen to focus on the life that's sprouting everywhere, like flowers. And I want to help feed the flowers.

I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Life is meant to be lived.

When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

I laugh a lot inside and outside, and at myself sometimes.

This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

The true man breathes with his heels.