We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Nothing is too big for [God] to handle and nothing is so small that it's unworthy of His attention. There is no such thing as a silly prayer.

Agree and freely switch on the heart that will take “no” as an answer to some questions.

Have the courage of your desire.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.

Boxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from.

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

I think I've always been a fighter in a healthy way.

We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.