"People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything."

"I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive."

"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."

"I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return."

"I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior."

"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint."

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."

"So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence."

"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

"For there is no respect of persons with God."

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

"Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."