A true artist is always a servant of beauty.

"We are all the sum of our stories, and biography helps us understand the equation."

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed to exclude, in a manner, all other arts.

You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

The ordinary becomes extraordinary when you look at it long enough.