The strongest passion which I have is honor.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Success is a work in progress, failure is not the end of the road: it is the strength to continue that matters.

Vacation time is something we all accrue, but only the wisest of us recognize its importance.

My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.

Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.

Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.