If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

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.

Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.

I disobeyed a basic basketball rule and never boxed out. I figured that if I had the inside position I had enough of an advantage to just go get the ball. And coaches left me alone because I got it.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

I don't think so. Anyways, I don't spend money. My wife spends money...sorry wife.

On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.

If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that.