"I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy."

“Don't get down on yourself when you get rejection letters.”

“Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.”

“Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.”

Source : N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc

“A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.”

“One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!”

Source : Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

“I don't think the tennis tour is the place to have friends”

“What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.”

“I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.”