A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

The seven deadly sins: food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that it's the way one is raised.

Colin Firth

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

Serge Daney

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Charles Baudelaire

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

G. K. Chesterton

Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Power to the peaceful!

Michael Franti

When you care about situations or people, you're hopeful that things will get better. When you worry about them, you're afraid they won't.

Donna Labermeier

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either. ? There's both sweet and sour in every day. ? So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful? ? Concentrate on the good.

Richelle E. Goodrich

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

Sonia Johnson

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Pierre Bonnard