Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

To laugh often and much;<br/>to win the respect of intelligent people<br/>and the affection of children;<br/>to earn the appreciation of honest critics<br/>and endure the betrayal of false friends;<br/>to appreciate beauty;<br/>to find the best in others;<br/>to leave the world a bit better,<br/>whether by a healthy child,<br/>a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;<br/>to know even one life has breathed easier<br/>because you have lived.<br/>This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb

Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.

Haywood Nelson

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Pierre Corneille

I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul.

Leelee Sobieski

On the contrary, art consists of inventing and not copying. The Italian Renaissance is a period of artistic decadence. Those men, devoid of their predecessors' inventiveness, thought they were stronger as imitators-that is false. Art must be free in its inventiveness, it must raise us above too much reality. This is its goal, whether it is poetry or painting. The plastic life, the picture, is made up of harmonious relationships among volumes, lines, and colors. These are the three forces that must govern works of art. If, in organizing these three essential elements harmoniously, one finds that objects, elements of reality, can enter into the composition, it may be better and may give the work more richness. But they must be subordinated to the three essential elements mentioned above. Modern work thus takes a point of view directly opposed to academic work. Academic work puts the subject first and relegates pictorial values to a secondary level, if there is room.For us others, it is the opposite. Every canvas, even if nonrepresentational, that depends on harmonious relationships of the three forces-color, volume, and line-is a work of art. I repeat, if the object can be included without shattering the governing structure, the canvas is enriched.Sometimes these relationships are merely decorative when they are abstract. But if objects figure in the composition-free objects with a genuine plastic value-pictures result that have as much variety and profundity as any with an imitative subject.

Fernand Leger

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

John Ruskin

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

Richard Roeper

Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

William James

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Marilyn vos Savant

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

Belinda Carlisle