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To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
In a competition, there's always winners and losers. And I think everyone is here to win, which makes it fun for us all.
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
I'm ready to move on to the next chapter of my life in which I will redouble my efforts to empower women in the workplace.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
Conflict is good in a negotiation process... it's the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
The protection of biodiversity and, therefore, of endangered species is an issue to which I attach a great deal of importance.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.