After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

One man with courage is a majority.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.