The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Plautus

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

James K. Polk

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious

Kurt Vonnegut

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful.

Plato

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

Barbara Kruger

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Aleister Crowley

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Frederic Bastiat

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Aristotle

Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.

Sir Martin Archer Shee

More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.

Meredith Baxter

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.

Albert Einstein