"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."

"Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there."

"No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth."

"Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture."

"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."

"Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines."

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

"Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself."

"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world any more. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf."

"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."

"Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that."

"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."

"There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology."

"Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."

"Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people."

"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."

"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."

"Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth."