Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

All men of action are dreamers.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.

There is something to be said about the vastness of the earth, as well as the vastness of the heavens, in reminding us how small we are and how great God's creation is.

Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.

It hurts being the one who loves more

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

We only make the mistakes that we have to make to learn what we're here to learn right now.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

Im concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. Theres no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.