A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Archibald MacLeish

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin, The Diaries of Ana

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Jerry Saltz

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Salvador Dali

If you want to know what's happening in the market, ask the market.

Japanese Proverb

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Denis Waitley

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Paul De Man

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...

Leo Tolstoy

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

Jim Clyburn

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. Proverbs 18:24

Bible

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Aristotle

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Alphonse de Lamartine