Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.

Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

It did not take long to conclude that, without God, would never come to understand where the universe began and where it ended, where it came from him, where he would go

Only that which is not said is sincere.

People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.

What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

Whenever I'm about to eat meat I always see my little dog's eyes.

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.

Malice is always authentic and sincere.

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

Winners win in life because they win the battle in their mind first!

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.