I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

James Joyce

The truth hurts when you live a life of lies.

Habeeb Akande

I've writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Steven Wright

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.

Christopher Alexander

It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison... it takes courage to do something about it.

Steve Maraboli

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.

Raymond Chandler

I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

Louisa May Alcott

One of these days is none of these days.

Anonymous

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

William Shakespeare

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Berthe Morisot

All people smile in the same language.

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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)