"The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere."

“A law is a law. It can be voted in. It can be voted out. It can be voted in and stay in as long as you have the majority. And where do you have the majority? You kid yourself.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org

“Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.”

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

“Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.”

Source : Benjamin Moser (2009). “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector”, p.79, Oxford University Press

“The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.”

“Blushing is the colour of virtue.”

“Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.”

“The highest thing people can say about an artist is, 'You know, I felt he or she was singing right to me.' If you've got the goods, and you're honest, that's where the thrill comes in, because of the urgency of the people really feeling what they feel. It's right there.”

“Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element...”