A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Africa will thrive.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.