It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.