"Not everyone can be an orphan."

"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."

"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

"There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release."

"Imagination rules the world."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman."