Reality is all that which can affect one.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

The Death's Field is the mirror which allows us the knowledge of the world we living in.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land of Opportunity becomes yours again.

My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.