Money without love is pointless.

Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

My Paintings are Battles.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

Unless there is meaning, there is no solution.

The lights must never go out, The music must always play