Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Put variety in white.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

Madness breeds madness.

The laugh is what trumps everything.

People are always surprised when they see me speak live that I have a sense of humor. And I say, Well, you know, there's not much opportunity to laugh when you're reporting the dread news of the day.

Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something.

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus.

I've campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He's campaigned for me; I've campaigned for him, good friend.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.

Dude, writing, acting and directing are such easy jobs. But to do them all as awesomely as Zach Braff does, well that... that's something.