Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

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.

Exercise daily to keep an active life.

Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.

I was walking after opportunities in my life, but I forgot that every second of my life is an opportunity.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?

I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.