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.

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.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

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

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.

Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus

It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.

We're everywhere, out there, among you

Comedian makes the statement that just isn't true.

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

Jackson Rathbone—he is a prankster. Constantly scaring people from behind, stuff like that.

I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.