Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure.
A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.
At the end of the day, all I want to do is protect my kids.
The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.