Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

If your head is made of wax, don't walk in the sun

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

A second ago is gone, and a second from now might be. Now is all you've got. Go for it!

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood.

Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.

Nothing whips my blood like verse.