The only really indecent people are the chaste.

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.

Only the chaste are truly obscene.

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

Laura Ingalls Wilder said, “Home is the nicest place there is.

Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving.

Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.

Horse is fine. I'll ride a horse.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.

The direction in which we are moving is more important than where we are at the moment. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

Just because it may take longer, Doesn't mean your dream won't get done.

Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC