Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Robert Collier

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Taylor Caldwell

One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone

W.E. (William Edwin) Sangster, T

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

Marlon Wayans

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Jonathan Swift

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

Oscar Wilde

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

John O. Brennan

At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn, sweet song. (I know now that it was Beethoven's Romance in F.) I listened, and suddenly it was as if the fog that surrounded me had been penetrated, as if I were being spoken to.

Jennifer Paynter

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

Shimon Peres

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.

Ann Richards

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein