If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

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.

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.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus?

You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.

I had to be the next family Alchemist. My sister... well, she's older, and usually it's the oldest kid who has to do the job. But, she's kind of... worthless. -Sydney to Rose

The preppy look has gone global- every corner of the world interprets it in a different way.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.