"The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today."

“My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”

“Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal.”

Source : Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders introduction (1968)

“Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk”

“we are dealing with a return to what might be a far more normal relationship between the West and Russia. Russia is what it is that we see. It's not dressed up in its birthday costume. It is what it is. It regards its national interests as important enough to fight for. And the difference on the whole Ukraine situation is that the Russians are prepared to fight for their position on Ukraine, and the West is not.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“The last cobwebs of fog in the black firtrees are flakes of white ash in the world's hearth.”

“When I'm training in December, I have to eat like 6,000 calories a day to maintain my weight. It's a bit tiring.”