I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still and lifeless in my arms. I let him go, and I will never forgive myself for that.

Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.

Education is the light which lets us see the universe in a better way. It often lets us understand her incredible beauty.

The spirit of gratitude brings out the true beauty of life.

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.

The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.