"It may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both."

“Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.”

“If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.”

“Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.”

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”

“A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.”

Source : Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames”, p.429

“Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother”

“I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.”

“One of the reasons I work serially, but also one of the reasons that I try to claim space in painting, is I'm desperately interested in asking: How can a group of images, or even two images, have meaning together?”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com