I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds.

I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

Each moment of love is eternal.Each moment of life is essential.

For every failure, there's an alternativecourse of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

I just believe that if I work hard and do well, who knows what the future holds?

Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.