I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Oscar Wilde

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Edward Hopper

What is there that money will not do?

Anthony Trollope

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

Stephen King

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

W. H. Auden

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.

Steve Backley

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...

Robert Collier

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

Janet Frame

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Abraham Lincoln

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

Julie Burchill

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Paulo Coelho