Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.

Love is large, and so forms the heart that embraces it fully.

Love is the light by which all are brought forward out of darkness.

We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

Life has placed seeds of greatness in you. Let what you are capable of blossom.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Weirdly, I'm not a horror fan.

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.