"I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held."

“The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.”

Source : Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.487

“When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.”

“She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that came through the picture window was daylight, real golden late-afternoon daylight, not a white mist light. The sky was a robin's-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ... Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting.”

“The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.”

“And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.”

“I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.”

Source : Alex Katz, Vittoria Coen, Lisa Liebmann (1999). “Alex Katz. Catalogo della mostra”, Hopeful Monsters

“I learn the most from making my own mistakes.”

“If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.”