Intent not followed by action is an insult to your design. Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Jim Hodges

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

Gordon Ramsay

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski

Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!

Orson Scott Card

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Mother Theresa

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

He's probably the single most untalented person I've heard in my life. He's a two-bit pretentious academic, and he can't play rock'n'roll, because he's a loser. And that's why he dresses up funny. He's not happy with himself, and I think he's right.

Lou Reed

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.

Gilbert Seldes

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Jane Austen

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Soren Kierkegaard