Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.

Develop a mailing list... anyone who comes through your studio or meets you at art shows or anywhere. It's the power of permission-based marketing. Email your latest work to the list, every month.

A personal website is vital, but it needs to change and evolve.

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else?

Nothing quite delivers the full experience of being out there like floating around soaking up the warmth of the early morning rays with a brush in hand.

Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Money buys you nice things but it doesn't make you happy.

Advanced meditation is facing the immensity of eternity, embracing that which terrifies you and frightens you and loving it because it's God. You are God.

The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.

We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.