...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being só slender,

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Big news on CNN, a search has uncovered illegal biochemical agents, toxins and other dangerous substances. Not in Iraq, in Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.

The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.

There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.