My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Alfred North Whitehead

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Jean Cocteau

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

Thomas Harrison

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

Sharon Shinn

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Voltaire

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

Lewis Thomas

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Paul Tsongas

An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely.

T.A. Miles

Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.

Joe Lieberman

If looking at porn makes you kill people, then Joe Matt should be the biggest serial killer ever. Bundy may have believed that porn made him a murderer, but the experience of millions of peaceful non-murdering porn-consumers around the world proves him wrong.

Chester Brown

A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.

Proverb