I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.

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.

Turns out there's more than one way to achieve your dreams.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble. What we need is love To guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, Help the weak if you are strong now.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

Don't believe everything you hear today

Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.

Beyond a doubt, they perish eternally who do not keep the Catholic faith entire and unchanged.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.