The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

The future is not something to be predicted, but something to be achieved.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

"Reality is not what happens to us, but what we make of what happens to us."

Every story has an end, but in life every end is a new beginning.

I don’t believe in ‘finished’—art is always evolving.

To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports.