My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

William Shakespeare

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Yann Martel

We only see what we aim at.

Jordan B. Peterson

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Sir Walter Scott

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

Carol Burnett

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.

Simon Mainwaring

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

Bob Riley

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Thomas Kempis

Quicker by taking more time.

Proverb

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

Fannie Flagg

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Isaac Asimov