Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

Bob Packwood

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Richard Francis Burton

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Tony Visconti

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

Jinato Hu

You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures.

Gene Robinson

Don't underestimate questions from the crowd technology has made voters more informed than ever.

Ron Fournier

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.

Robert G. Ingersoll, Essay: Indi

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

Virginia Woolf

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Celine Dion

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

George Eliot

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

Jasper Carrott