What men call accident is God's own part.

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.

The only cowards are sinners fighting the fight is all.

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

You go on Instagram, and it's just not a real reflection of what people do, and how much pain people are in every day. So that's my mental change.

The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

Everything you do is by choice. It may not seem so, but it is.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.