The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Quintilian

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.

Alexander Pope

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

Jerry Saltz

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Huston Smith

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

Bobby Seale

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

Peter Tork

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Edmund White

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

Georg Buchner

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Ambrose Bierce

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant