The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

Louisa May Alcott

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

Carlos Santana

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

Jodi Picoult

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Gerald Brenan

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Henry Miller

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Honore de Balzac

So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.

Loreena McKennitt

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.

Ursula K. LeGuin

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

George W. Bush

We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

Andrew Carnegie