Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.

Josh Billings

Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

Calvin Klein

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

Joni Mitchell

The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: He is a very common-looking man. The President replied: The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Decouvertes

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Barry Commoner

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

David Herbert Lawrence

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

Source Unknown

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

Max Beerbohm

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

Alexander Herzen