Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

Joy keeps the soul alive.

The spirit gone, man is garbage.

I am a miserable cook but an extremely talented eater.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.