As ability goes, so goes our fortune.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

If we come to Jesus Christ, He completely change us.

Success comes from patience and passion.

I measure my days by the number of homicidal thoughts I have. I only had two today. So it must have been good.

A wise man’s questions contain half the answer.

What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.

The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself.

If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been