Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.

You can be all that you wish to be.The power is in your own hands.

I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.

You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

Thats what abortion is - killing innocent humans for money. Abortionists are government licensed hit men.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well.

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.

I have no knowledge of anything.

My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out, "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.