"I dream of our vast deserts, of..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes”

“Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.”

“I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.”

“We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.”

“Trees cause pollution.”

“The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.”

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”

“Sir, the year growing ancient,Not yet on summer's death nor on the birthOf trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' seasonAre our carnations and streaked gillyvors,Which some call nature's bastards.”

“The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.”