Have the courage to act instead of react.

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.

Anita Hill

A prince is venison in heaven.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Jesus Christ

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Marilyn Monroe

It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone...

Joseph Conrad

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Sir Walter Scott

In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to. My subjects are also often playful. I cannot help mocking all our unwavering certainties. It is, for example, great fun deliberately to confuse two and three dimensions, the plane and space, or to poke fun at gravity. Are you sure that a floor cannot also be a ceiling? Are you absolutely certain that you go up when you walk up a staircase? Can you be definite that it is impossible to eat your cake and have it?Variant translation: I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

M. C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher

In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

Fran Tarkenton

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

Terry Pratchett

If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.

Elbert Hubbard

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

Samuel Johnson