I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel.
Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.
Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
I'm a songwriter. So I'm OK. But when I wrote "Stand By Me" as a song and to know that the song will probably be here for hundred and hundreds of years to come, it's great, you know. And it was just simple lyrics.
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track and from ruin.
I can be around kids if I need to be.
The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.