There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind and one of the most important is faith which cannot be acquired without prayer.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

Frivolity is inborn conceit acquired by education.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

Beauty like truth is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature but the measure can be acquired by art.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture art and architecture and learned of the existence of the game of GO which I still play.

My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired and I've put them all to work onstage.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.