Giotto di Bondone

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.