Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Henri Matisse

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog

Ambrose Bierce

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

Alexandra Paul

The secret of happiness is something to do.

John Burroughs

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Penn Jillette

In order to feel complete love, we can either delude ourselves that some imperfect object of our love is perfection or we can love perfection, which is God.

Leo Tolstoy

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

Kahlil Gibran

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

Charles Lamb

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Sir Edwin Arnold