Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.

Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.