The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.

In al-Qaeda we see a terrorist grouping with, in many ways, a medieval ideology, employing today's technology to great advantage. It works in a thoroughly modern way, virtual, amorphous, franchised and unbounded by geography. It has recruited people from

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Never outgrow your imagination.

Be Mindful of Death" (Memento Mori)

Hell is truth seen too late.

Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are.

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

In the ashes of adversity, lies opportunity.

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a