Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.
Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.
I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!
Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 247, which I don't. I just like the most natural and simple things. That's what makes me happy.