Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.

I never think of physical fighting. It's always spiritual. Fighting is spiritual.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.