I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Lorna Luft

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

Julie Bishop

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

Walter Salles

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Eric Butterworth

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Samuel Butler

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.

John Ruskin

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

Solomon Burke

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

William Tecumseh Sherman

It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing wife or whether commercials make you cry. [...] it's about whether you step up. When something hard comes along. A man steps up. He doesn't dodge it or run away from it or try to push it onto someone else. He steps up. Even if it isn't his responsibility. And that's why there are so many guys and so few men. Because stepping up is hard.

Ben Monopoli

I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.

Diane Kruger

Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Thomas Jefferson