You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission.

I had a call to the University of Miami where I'd run a revival in 1950.

When I'm makin' lectures to these universities, I tell 'em I like that little building because when I run short a audience, if I can get three people in there I've got a good crowd.

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.

When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.

You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

As for me, I'm just passin' through this planet.

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of everything to keep up with it all. I get bored with Silicon Valley technology a lot. I've always had much more of a draw to the people who are doing things for love than the people who are doing things for money.

Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.

There are various grades of spiritual sight. One grade enables a man to see the ordinarily invisible ether with the myriads of beings that invest that realm. Other and higher variants give him the faculty to see the desire world and even the world of thought while remaining in the physical body.

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.

My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.

But everything of value about me is in my books.

When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Never underestimate the power of a simple smile, a kind word or theacknowledgement of another. Little gestures can move mountains.

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

Nashville is wicked. It’s like a proper music community, but it’s also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you ‘boy.’ I just love that.

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.

I've always enjoyed things a little more chaotic than most people would prefer. I feel that I run well in chaos.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.