Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely!

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

I came to trust in Jesus as my Savior after a two-year personal study of the Bible that convinced me that Scripture is free of contradiction and error - doctrinally, historically, and scientifically.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

One of the things which separates British and American culture is the reverence for the flag in American culture.

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night.

It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.