As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.
I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don't like is to get bored.
The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.
Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.
With women, the more unhappy they are, the more undressed they are.
My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.
God not only allowed for joyful worship but also commanded it.
And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the world, of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its government, and give it all possible success and duration, consistent with the ends of His providence.
Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is not the freedom of life. The tree, when you give it a chance, protect it when it is young, will grow straight, because it has developed its own resistance; but the moment you make it delicate, then it gets crooked.
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.