"Be an artist. Don't say it, do it."

-- Will Gompertz

“Produce great men, the rest follows.”
“I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.”
“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”

Source : Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics
“I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”
“Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.18, A&C Black
“My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.”

Source : Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee, 12 June 1956
“When we think of our work as a gift, it radically changes what we create.”
“Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.”

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