There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

Amy Poehler

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Logan Pearsall Smith

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

Stella Adler

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

Joseph De Maistre

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

William Shakespeare

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

Leo Tolstoy

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

Fay Godwin

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

Phil Donahue

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

Julie Andrews

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Claude M. Bristol