We strongly feel we have to protect everything.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

We strongly feel we have to protect everything.

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.

The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve.

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

It's the water. Everything is driven by the water.

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service.

Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.

I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans.

I want to be living out of a suitcase in a different city every day.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

Surprise is key in all art.

Brothers and sisters are one of the constant things in the lives of many people.

The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

I think Red Sox fans have always been good to me; they've treated me well.

I want to be the best.

I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.

Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

Love is mysterious and rad like Steve Perry from Journey.

The biggest lesson I've learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I've realized that everything I've done has had an impact on them. We have to understand that they are like little paparazzi. They take our picture when we don't want them to and then they show it to us in their behavior.

Her hair was longer than it used to be, and it veiled her shoulders like a shawl. She used it for protection.

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.

As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.