It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

Ovid

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Denis Leary

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

David Ogilvy

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

Edward Blishen

I believe because it is impossible.

Terence

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Buddha

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Octavia Butler

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

Peter Singer

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.

Jerry Saltz

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Aeschylus

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

John Steinbeck

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe