Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

David Dinkins

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

G. K. Nielson

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Jane Austen

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

Judy Biggert

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Bernard Baruch

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Plato

The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It

Anthony Burgess

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

William Wordsworth

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

Puff Daddy

The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way

Plato

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Earl Nightingale