because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

An item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

There is one thing I know for sure. You can become successful, if you are willing to pay the price for success.

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.