All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

LaoTzu, Source: Lionel Giles tra

You are a reflection of nature. You should always be upgrading, refining, and improving.

Steve Maraboli

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

Orson Scott Card

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Sun Tzu

Convicções profundas só as têm as criaturas superficiais. Os que não reparam para as coisas quase que as veem apenas para não esbarrar com elas, esses são sempre da mesma opinião, são os íntegros e os coerentes. A política e a religião gastam dessa lenha, e é por isso que ardem tão mal entre a Verdade e a Vida.

Fernando Pessoa

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

Jane Clayson Johnson

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Golda Meir

Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.

Stephen King

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

Jello Biafra

There can be no truce between science and religion.

John B. S. Haldane

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

Proverb