Life is what you make it. Always has been. Always will be. - Grandma Moses

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones, and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them. I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

People always say that it's too late. However, in fact, now is the best appropriate time. For a man who really wants to seek for something, every period of life is younger and timely.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.