I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.

It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.

We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

People tend to cherish and take care of the things they pay for and therefore own, countries included. The opposite is also true. When was the last time you changed the oil in a rental car?

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

We are all geniuses when we dream.

I'm the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

I personally believe that [Donald Trump] is wrong on the condition of America.

Put your passions to work to make this world a better place.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.