Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.