If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

A good artist should laugh often!

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.

The whole universe wants to contribute toyou. The world wants to contribute to you. The world wants to give you everything you desire—but you don’t ask.

Talk radio doesn't need to be political.

Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.