Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.
College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.
The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.
There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.
Only pissed-off people change the world.
How is it possible for one’s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears all that he does, and knows his secret open affairs, and that he will be made to stand before Allah, answerable for all his deeds - how can one be certain and aware of all of this, and yet persist upon things which displease Allah; persist upon abandoning Allah’s orders, neglecting His rights, and yet claim that he has good expectation of Allah?
What I tell you three times is true.
I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you know, when I die, if you ever publish these I will come back and haunt you.