It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.