So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

I have but one life to give to adventure.

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.

The mind dies, but its thoughts live on. The heart perishes, but its experiences live on. The body expires, but its spirit lives on.

And the love in their eyes set the world on fire.

Here all guilt ceases, for it cannot cling to such flowers as these.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it.

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?