The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.
College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.
I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced
What once made you safe now drives you insane.
Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.
I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.
Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.
I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.
By the time I was six or seven-years-old, I had learned several techniques of how to use my voice and was able to choose the sound I wanted to distinguish myself, so I started writing songs on the piano.
Measure the success of your days by the lives touched vs the hours passed.