"It's always hard to analyze what your own style is."

“As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness... then you will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.”

“I went to the brink many times. A couple of times I thought "I'm gone, This is it." But then you would just keep working. I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into everything and the people around you and everything, you should come through.”

“The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.”

“Paint what you see and look with your own eyes.”

Source : Carrie Rebora Barratt, Gilbert Stuart, Ellen Gross Miles (2004). “Gilbert Stuart”, p.60, Metropolitan Museum of Art

“I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.”

“Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.”

Source : Millard Fillmore (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.179, ReadHowYouWant.com

“I've learned that I can't do it all at once. So, you have to figure out your angle of attack. Coming in on the acting front, acting is a passion of mine. It's a true love. Dancing, I kind of just fell into. Choreographing, the same thing. But making films, producing and directing, that's the heartbeat of my existence.”

Source : "Columbus Short: The This Christmas Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 17, 2007.

“I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.”