To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

How sweet it is!

Jackie Gleason

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Edmund Burke

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

Mickey Rourke

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

Chris Ware

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Charles de Secondat

The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Hans Hofmann

If the world could remain within a frame Like a painting on a wall, Then I think we would see the beauty, then We would stand staring in awe At our still lives posed Like a bowl of oranges, Like a story told By the fault lines and the soil.

Conor Oberst

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Will Rogers

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

Maria Montessori

There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.

Thomas Campbell

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

Thomas De Quincey