I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the I in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

Edmond Rostand

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Horace

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

Paul Ryan

Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What the world neglects, the Lord accepts.

Deborah Brodie

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Mortimer Caplan

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Alexander Haig

You will never win if you never begin.

Robert H. Schuller

...beauty is not symmetry of parts- that's so impotent -as Mishima says, beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs

John Geddes

Does she know you love her? Of course. I paused. The obstacle seemed unreal to me. If you love her, I said, you'll love somebody else someday.

Sylvia Plath

The question is not How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, What about Christ's will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?

Robert A. Cook

Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths.... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

Muhammad Ali