We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Fear is a sign to prepare yourself, not to stop.

Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself.

I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings.

If God exists at all, it exists in the pants of a man and woman, not otherwise

He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

Learn it all, then forget it all.

God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

Noah had 120 years to warn humanity of the flood. We have only 4-5 years until global warming is irreversible