I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.
I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.
Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
I think that people have some sort of vision that everybody is moving towards perfection, and that there is some sort of set steps or something like that that you can move through to get to that place, and that that's sort of the project of being alive.
The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.
There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.