There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

A pregnant pause with enough gestation can give birth to a well formed idea.

In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

It's not a face, but a personal insult.

Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me!

I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.

You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.