God did not create us to abandon us.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

Don't just believe, EXPECT!! Make preparations to succeed & be open to receive!

If they don't walk away, we have to walk away, and sometimes we do it crying.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their constituents and others.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.