"There are many skillful apprentices, but few..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.”

“If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.”

“It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.”

“A good counter needs no calculator.”

“The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”

“Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.”

“He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.”

“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”

“When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.”