Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

James Agee

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Alexander the Great

Run, sweetheart, run.

Rae Hachton

Trust in God - she will provide.

Emmeline Pankhurst

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

Mark Twain

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent Van Gogh

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Benjamin Franklin

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

Richard Dreyfuss

You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

Edward Steichen, Wisdom

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

John Kenneth Galbraith

You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.

Bruce Weber

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Mary Daly