Empathy and the ability to use your imagination should have no limits.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.