“Nature is the art of God.”

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Love insists the loved loves back.

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time when miserable.

There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.

Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Space is the breath of art.

The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.

When we speak we create.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.