"A prayer makes sense only if it is lived."

“The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.”

“Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.”

“This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.”

Source : "The Struggle Continues for Civil Rights" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2013.

“Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.”

“People in New York just go about their business. Maybe living there for a long time, it would get lonely, but there's something really nice about being able to go about your business and not feel like anybody is really paying attention to you or what you're doing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.”

Source : "Goldman Sachs' newly minted billionaire CEO Lloyd Blankfein grew up in the projects of Brooklyn" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2015.

“I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.”

“For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.”