The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.

The world is abounding with beauty. You are a demonstration of this.

Do I need permission to breathe, Sir?

All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.

Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.