It is easy to go down into Hell night and day the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub the task.

What I enjoy doing more than anything is I have my little antique car collection and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing not much traffic.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity and a sign of death as well.

Art is the child of Nature yes her darling child in whom we trace the features of the mother's face her aspect and her attitude.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.

You that would judge me do not judge alone this book or that come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.