I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.

Philippe Sollers

Taxes and golf are alike, you drive your heart out for the green, and then end up in the hole.

Source Unknown

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat,Untouched thy honied blossoms blow,Unseen thy little branches greet;...No roving foot shall crush thee here,...No busy hand provoke a tear.By Nature's self in white arrayed,She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,And planted here the gaurdian shade,And sent soft waters murmuring by;...Thus quietly thy summer goes,...Thy days declinging to repose.Smit with those charms, that must decay,I grieve to see your future doom;They died--nor were those flowers more gay,The flowers that did in Eden bloom;...Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power...Shall leave no vestige of this flower.From morning suns and evenign dewsAt first thy little being came:If nothing once, you nothing lose,For when you die you are the same;...The space between, is but an hour,...The frail duration of a flower.

Philip Freneau, The Wild HoneySu

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

Cesare Pavese

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

Angelina Grimke

There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Edwin Markham

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Mae West

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Daisaku Ikeda