Quote of the Day

"God always takes the simplest way."

"If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises."

"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children."

"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

"One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later."

"Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest."

"Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning."

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

"I think God's justice is making wrongs right."

"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."

"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated."

"Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."