"A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side."

"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner."

"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

"It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well."

"It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life."

"I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama."

"There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other."