Do whatever you do intensely.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Do whatever you do intensely.

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

A weak background is a deadly thing.

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas and have it look like something when you stand back.

Color is only beautiful when it means something.

Drawing is not following a line on the model it is drawing your sense of the thing.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you can't construct this carefully planned out arc for your character. You often get a script and you're shooting it two days later, and you don't know what's going to happen next. It's one of the harder things that I've done.

I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing.

Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support.

Between two souls lies a single heart.

I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.

When you live in Iceland, so very far away from everything else, you have no concept that anything you do will be heard outside of Reykjavik. I still don't know how we managed it.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

If you have to doubt something, let it be your own perceived limitations. Expand, stretch and believe.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.

Because to take away a mans freedom of choice even his freedom to make the wrong choice is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

The wheel of change moves on and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.

The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harry Potter' and have it be about Harriett Potter because nobody would read it; people only want to read an adventure story if it's about a boy,' and I thought, 'I don't think that's true.'

I am always in much better shape when I am doing a Broadway show because you have the eight shows a week to kind of keep the body clean and perfect in a sense, you know? For instance, I always eat much better when I am in a show because you can't have dairy - for your voice.

I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated.

I was never on the side of the teachers at school. Even though I put all the work into getting the main role in the end-of-year musical when I was 11, they didn't give it me, even though they knew I should have had it. That sort of drove me into am dram and getting the main part in another production. And I did.