Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

Samuel Johnson

4. We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.

Adolph Gottlieb

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Charles Franklin Kettering

In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery

Thomas Jefferson

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

William Morris

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Johann von Goethe

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

J. G. Ballard

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Mark Twain

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gustave Flaubert

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world

MaryAnne Radmacher Hershey

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Barbra Streisand

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

Margaret Sanger