You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Francis Bacon

She was beautiful, with a beauty so severe and so solitary that at first it was startling. Ah! If only there were two of me, she thought, one doing the talking and one listening, one living and one watching, how I would love myself. I'd envy no one.

Simone de Beauvoir

There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales -- and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Thomas Aquinas

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

Eric Bana

When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.

Mark Twain

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

John von Neumann

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

Grover Norquist

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

O. Henry

Before you decide if someone is beautiful close your eyes and listen.

Evette Carter