Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

God helps those who persevere.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

I take the challenge.

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to "hunger and thirst" after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 The great wonder is the living fountain of love and joy which Christ poured into and through this 'poor little man'. [Francis] always knew where the real miracle lay. It was not in things that happened to his body, though they were wonderful enough. It was not to be found in the fact that birds and beasts, even the wolf of Gubbio, felt the spell of his spirit. It was the radiance of light and love breaking across the darkness and hate of the world and his time. He loved lepers. He loved robbers and changed their lives. He loved beggars in their rags. He loved rich men, too, and members of the Church, who needed him as much as the robbers did. He brought Christianity out of forms and creeds and services into the open air, in action and into the movements of life. He changed the entire line of march of religion in the Western World. Brother Masseo, half jesting, asked him once why the whole world was running after him, not very comely, not very wise, not of noble birth. "Why after thee?" "God chose me," Francis answered, "because He could find no one more worthless, and He wished by me to confound the nobility and grandeur, the strength and beauty and learning of the world." But the real answer is that here at last in this wonderful man was an organ of that Spirit which was in Christ, and a marvelous transmitter of it to the world. The divine agape went out into men's lives through him. Here was a childlike lover of men, ready, if need be, to be crucified for love, but also ready in humble everyday tasks to reveal this love.

This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke Fresh to all Ages.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Forgiveness is better than revenge.

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious and kind. May her touch be soft like that of wool, or a young woman, and may she protect thee from the depths of destruction. Rise above him, O Earth, do not press painfully on him, give him good things, give him consolation, as a mother covers her child with her cloth, cover thou him.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

I paint with shapes.