Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

To be a believer in Christ Jesus is more powerful than any nuclear weapon

What might be considered loyalty in onesociety might not necessarily be the same for another.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again.

A rainbow looks good because the colours demonstrate restrain. Otherwise it would be an ugly blob.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.