Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Normalness leads to sadness.

What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Being part of the whole, as I grow so does that which contains me.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.