"When you take a man as he..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.”

“The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.”

“The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.”

“The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.”

“Loving yourself involves the discovery of the true wonder of you; not only the present you, but the many possibilities of you. It involves the continual realization that you are unique, like no other person in the world, that life is, or should be, the discovery, the development and the sharing of this uniqueness.”

“The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.”

“La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.”

“They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.”

“Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.”