If food were free, why work?

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

You know it feels good. I can hardly geta…I don’t even…”There was something amusing about watching him trying to form a coherent sen-tence. Amusing, but arousing at the sametime.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

Sometimes you say to yourself: the fire in me is going out. But you were not the one who lit that fire. Your faith does not create God, and your doubts cannot banish Him to nothingness.

For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.

If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.