The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

I’ll never know if it was figuratively or literally when he said I drove him crazy.

Tell you what, why don’t we go ask her brothers what they think of your claim?”“I’d rather beat you to a pulp.

Hitler took the action of pitiless massacre as a last resort in the face of a perceived irreconcilable e

The holidays are my favorite time of year! Christmas was always one of the biggest celebrations in Sweden, and I look forward to the festivities each year.

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?

Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.