It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.
Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.