All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

To find is the thing.

Pablo Picasso

I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

John Green

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Bob Dylan

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

Julianna Baggott

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

Karl Marx

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

Dante Hall

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Doug Horton

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

Robert Musil

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Gustave Courbet

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Mahatma Gandhi