"There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars."

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.”

Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

“There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.”

“A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.”

“I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.”

“The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.”

Source : Radio appeal for peace, Oslo, Norway, April 30, 1958.

“Just eat less and exercise more.”

“Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family; then the church; next the community, finally the county, and, in a disaster or emergency, the state. Under no circumstances is the federal government to become involved in public welfare. The Founders felt it would corrupt the government and also the poor. No Constitutional authority exists for the federal government to participate in charity or welfare.”

Source : W. Cleon Skousen “The Making of America”, Verity Publishing

“When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.”