Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Alexander McQueen

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Joseph Addison

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Meister Eckhart

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

e. e. cummings

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

Tami Hoag

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

Quentin Crisp

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

Philip Massinger

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

Walter Payton

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.

Abraham Lincoln

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

Mollie Marti

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William James