Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

You can’t make a high jump without high spirits!

I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home.

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision the determination and the courage to reach it.

I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.