"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."