“A woman laughing is a woman conquered.”

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”

“There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.”

“Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.”

“The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

“Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”