The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but also the vitality of the world around you.

You don't really drive in cabs in L.A. unless you're broke or homeless - or if you're broke and driving the cab.

We are subsidizing healthy food instead of subsidizing food that is definitely not healthy for us.

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.