A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

Motivation gets you started, but habit keeps you going.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

Be kind whenever possible.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.