Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

Source Unknown

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Ayn Rand, The Metaphysical Versu

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Charles Ives

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Samuel Johnson

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Zinedine Zidane

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

Trey Parker

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

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The businessman's religion and glory demand that he should make much money; therefore, like the Hindu widow, he suffers the torment gladly.

Bertrand Russell

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

Frances Burney

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing.She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

Maya Angelou