While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Some people never stop working, especially the demanding type of person whom the world never seems to touch, the indomitable person whom is determined to make the world their own place.

They [Mike Tyson and Todd Phillips] actually struck up a really pretty incredible chemistry, those two, and I think they really trusted each other.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders

I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.

Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

Some makeup you put on and feel like you're getting pimples by the hour.