Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promi

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Oscar Wilde

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

Kristen Wiig

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

Jacqueline Cochran

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Doug Larson

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

Angela Davis

I am enjoying writing the last book in the series and it's coming along nicely.

J.K. Rowling

Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!

Eliezer Yudkowsky

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Charles M. Schwab

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau