Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has cast up in my time -- this art by which even the poor can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.

On his bold visage middle age Had slightly pressed its signet sage, Yet had not quenched the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth; Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare, The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire, Of hasty love or headlong ire.

Walter Scott

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.

Ben Stein

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

Ray Bradbury

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

Drew Curtis

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

Tony Kushner

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Andrew Weil

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Blaise Pascal

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.

Sara Paddison

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Edward George BulwerLytton

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain