Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything—or nothing.
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.