No painting is more replete than Mondrian's.

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

There's never an end for the sea.

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

Censorship like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

The sicker our fans get, the sicker we'll get

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.