"We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment to us, as we are for him."

“We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.”

“No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.”

“During the election, I traveled all across the country. I like my country and the French. I love talking with them and convincing them. It is my job each day to fight for my compatriots. But also to not succumb to demagoguery and lies or agree to favors.”

“If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.”

Source : "Art in a Word". Documentary by Vera Baghiroli, QOOB TV, July 22, 2008.

“The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.”

“There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.”

“Beauty is not everything!”

Source : Interview with John Garcia, thecolumnonline.com.

“Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.”