“I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.”

“Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.”

“Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.”

“You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.”

“You can teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.”

“It is not who you are underneath but it is what underwear you wear and what you do that defines you”

“The greatest reward is to be found in the pursuit of a cause greater than ourselves, where we prevail not as individuals but as an integral part of a very special group of people committed to one another through bonds forged in the heat of competition and the pressure of creating something which did not exist before.”