“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.”

I love people who make me laugh.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Happiness is not out there, it's in you.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.