"The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees."

“The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.”

Source : Philip Schaff (1866). “The person of Christ: the miracle of history, with a reply to Strauss and Renan, and a collection of testimonies of unbelievers”, p.5

“Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.”

“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”

“The history of literature is the history of the human mind.”

Source : WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT (1858). “BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES”, p.245

“What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.”

“We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.”

Source : "String theorist Edward Witten gives prize lecture" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2010.

“It's annoying when people do that so-called comedians impression of me when it's stupid nonsense.”

“Education will open doors where none seem to exist.”

Source : Mark Mathabane (1997). “Kaffir Boy: And Related Readings”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin