A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Paul Cezanne

The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are.

Philip K. Dick

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

George Orwell

Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Walter Benjamin

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

Willard Gaylin

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, but must be current.

John Milton

Pros are people who do jobs well even when they don't feel like it.

Source Unknown

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'

Igor Stravinsky, "London Magazin

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Epicurus

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

David Hare