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.

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

Drink moderately for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

I think I was raised by a really good mother.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.

You have to fight bad days to have best days in your Life.

Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, It's a girl.

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

I was fresh out of drama school and had no idea what I was doing. They hustled me along and Bill Cosby tolerated my rookie behavior. It was great. Once you have 'The Cosby Show' on your resume, you can keep going.

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.