Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

The highest happiness is the feeling of wellbeing which comes to one who is actively employed in doing what he was made to do

God is expecting us to stand in the gap between the dying earth and the heavens, for the will of God to be done on earth like it is in heaven

i want to remember

Tim Howard is as sharp as a tank.

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. Im not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.

I really feel lovely when I get up with my sweetheart. When I depart a photograph shoot, as a result of someway miracles have been labored.

After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.