The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Do whatever you do intensely.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

I can't do big things, but I want everything to be for the glory of God.

The enemy [in Iraq] pulls back. We think we're doing well. Well, they pull back. They're not stupid. And then after we leave, you see what happened.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

Sufism and yoga are one and the same thing. They are just words, in wisdom there is no difference. All the teachings are absolutely the same. They are only different paths to the One.

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

I say, look at the melons on that lass,” Ian exclaimed, his gaze now on the TV. “And hung like a stallion, he is.” “Focus, mate,” Spade muttered.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.