I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire

Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.

Even now we can draw back. But once we cross that little bridge we must settle things by the sword.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

I'm happy because I got another medal. It's a competition and it's ice and anything can happen.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.