Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!

There is no progress in art.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.

Figure out what works for you and what doesn't.

...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.