Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

Paz de la Huerta

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Benjamin Disraeli

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813].

Thomas Jefferson

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

Friedrich Nietzsche

The good old times -- all times when old are good.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Henry Ford

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

Samuel Johnson

To display his eternal attributes in their inexhaustible variety, the Lord made the green fields of time and space.

Jami

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillionShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Benjamin Disraeli