A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.