The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

William Blake

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Mark Twain

We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

David Neeleman

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Milan Kundera

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

Francis Bowen

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Hermann Hesse

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Edward Burnett Tylor

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Peter Ustinov

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself

Benjamin Franklin

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

H. L. Mencken

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.

David Kay

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Italian Proverb