It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.

A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

We don't help people by showing them our trophies. We help them by showing them our scars.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started with the death of Jesus.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

The darkest hour was just before dawn.

...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.