The image is an image..

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further..

God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass..

Whatever's there to feel, feel it—the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own mortality. Get ….

I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come. Tomorrow ….

God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit h….

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life..

Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion..

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs..

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile..

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree t….

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

I try to do yoga when I can to make sure that I'm flexible and that I'm not going to tear any muscle or pull anything..