And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

Convince yourself that you are capable to take the actions to change your life. You are the change and you should change every time especially when you are a victim.

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.

Our faith can only go as far as our awareness of Gods goodness

Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit.

To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.

When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy." But it makes about the same sense.

When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!