Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things: It was the eager wish to soar That gave the gods their wings. . . . . There throbs through all the worlds that are This heart-beat not and strong, And shaken systems, star by star, Awake and glow in song.

I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like, "Hey, when are you going to pay me that $100 you owe me?" or "Do you have that $50 you borrowed?" Man, quit being so cheap!

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

here, there and everywhere.

The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. -Vaclav Havel.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.