After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due respective thrift, Had made brutes men and men divine.
Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.
Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.
O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.
Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.
I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the people of America of the character of the problem and the remedies to be applied. . . . It is virtually impossible at this distance merely by reading, or listening, or even seeing photographs or motion pictures, to grasp at all the real significance of the situation. And yet the whole world of the future hangs on a proper judgment.
Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.