Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

Kindness is stronger than iron bars.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

You can't have too much dog in a book.

Those who have the FREEDOM to Row can get to where they want to Go!- RVM

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

There can be no mercy without truth.

The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

I was single long enough, and when I was, it wasn't about putting notches in the bedpost.

I love telling press the designers I'm wearing, especially if they are emerging. That's exciting to me, supporting talented newcomers.