God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.

Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.

Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.

All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.

The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.

God appointed man as the family head.

Light only benefits one whose eyes are open.

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.

Pass the bone, kid pass the bone, Let's get on this mission like Indiana Jones

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

Are you crazy?" "Probably

I think in the first place hearing the music inside of you is very soothing, very comforting. For me there always been, if you like, a spiritual connection between myself and music.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.