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"As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life."

"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries."

"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world."

"Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God."

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can."

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"

"The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers."

"Wars frequently begin ten years before the first shot is fired."

"Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around."

"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."

"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose."

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."

"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions."

"So little done, so much to do."

"I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers [on the Net] by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time."

"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."

"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more."

"Great art picks up where nature ends."

"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art."

"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."

"Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."

"It is not a fragrant world."

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"

"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven."

"A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof."