Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit and beauty.

People whose eyes shine are happy to be alive. They see life and it’s glory even when things aren’t easy.And because they see life, even through all the problems and obstacles, their eyes shine.

That he had been born an artist—in all ways—a paragon of romantic torment out of the likes of some Brontë novel—has yet to make itselfknown to him. He watches himself unfold.

I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.

The home of Religion is the heart.

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy.