"I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence in my own vision."

“I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.”

“In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.”

“We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.”

Source : "Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1958.

“I have the talent and the tools to win.”

“I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.”

“What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a man cannot be judged by the number of diseases from which he escapes. The value of a man is in his human qualities: in his character, in his conscience, in the nobility and magnanimity, of his soul. Torturing animals to prolong human life has separated science from the most important thing that life has produced - the human conscience.”

“Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.”

“Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”