Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

It is not a virtue, but a kind of deceitful similitude, to fulfill our duty for the purpose of its reward.

Leo Tolstoy

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

SunTzu

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

Sting

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation.

Victor Hugo

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

Heston Blumenthal

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Bradley Whitford

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Bill Keller

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson

If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area.

Toba Beta

Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?

Dennis Moore

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Proverb