A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.

Art is dedicated echo.

Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.

Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.

I have taught you my dear flock for above thirty years how to live and I will show you in a very short time how to die.

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.

If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

Testing, we will never do enough of it.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.