Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

The most important key to a more romantic life: you have to be willing to pay attention

When I filter the sunshine in my life, I bask in the light of a transforming and inspiring reality.

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.

I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.