He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Walter Pater

Work keeps at bay, three great evils -- boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

Sue Wicks

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Elizabeth Goudge

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Henry James

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

J.K. Rowling

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

Brittany Murphy

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine.

Jason Mraz

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

Steve Jobs