Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

I love you more than I think I should.

You can set your mind to anything, just keep concentrating.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.

What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.

Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.