“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Our roots are deeper than the soil that holds them.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Painting's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire. The fault lies in us, in our want of control.