It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the deepest sea, aquamarine shadows, even the glint of blue-green where the sun struck just so.

I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.

Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.

When it comes to me, I know what I can do and can't do.

One king, one law, one faith.

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.

I've never been in a love triangle. I would not want to be in that situation.