All over your hands...

If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly. ~Author Unknown

Being great...

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. - Zig Ziglar

Wonderful life...

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette

Doesn't make sense...

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso

Friendship...

True friends do not value you for what you can do for them - they simply value you. - Ruhani Rabin

The future...

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. -Abraham Lincoln

Never give up...

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

The unexpected...

Doing the unexpected is the key to bright ideas. - Stephen Shapiro, CIO magazine

Success...

The best revenge is massive success. -Frank Sinatra

Each other...

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. -Audrey Hepburn

Flavor of other places...

The most beautiful things in this country have the flavor of other places. Chinese food. Pizza came from the Italians, but it's an American experience. French fries. There's always some other cultures involved. You don't have to be a hyphenated American, but you can certainly be an American who doesn't forget where they came from.

- Gloria Estefan

Painting...

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~Pablo Picasso

Start immediately...

To change your life: Start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions. -William Jones

Ask yourself...

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? - James Allen

Going out...

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found was really going in. - John Muir, Naturalist

Always too soon...

It's always too soon to quit. -Norman Vincent Peale

It is a by-product...

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Your work...

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."
– Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement speech, 2005

Improvise...

The arts teach you to create, improvise and think outside the box. That's a skill set that will take you quite a ways in life. -Brian Smith

Painting...

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
~Henri Matisse

Even if you miss...

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss. ~Les Brown