As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Italo Calvino said the artist reveals that bit of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. Art is all about the art of lying. The artist's imperative is to create a supreme fiction, a lie that, paradoxically, discloses a truth. It's precisely this kind of paradox that Calvino and Fellini adored.

Damian Pettigrew

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Michael Leboeuf

In God's eyes, we're all the same.

Mark Willis

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Charles A. Lindbergh

I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.

Patti Stanger

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Georges Braque

The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.

Angela Carter

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Marvin J. Ashton

Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

A. J. Muste

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Lily Collins

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann von Goethe