Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.

God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.

Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.

All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.

The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.

I have more self-confidence than I did when I was in my 20s.

If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

The few things I’d sacrificed, or put on hold, to be with my husband and baby were worth it.

When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word.