Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
. . . he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. . . The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
We all sleep with the corpses of our dead lovers.
Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.
The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.