The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

James Russell Lowell

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

Max von Sydow

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

William H. Davies

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You see things and you say, 'Why' But I dream things that never were and I say, Why not

George Bernard Shaw

I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

Lord Chesterfield

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

Andrew Motion

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

John Steinbeck

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

Aesop

When you stop blaming others for where you are in life, that is when you can start to manifest your dream life!

Stephen Richards

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt