In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Johann von Goethe

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!

Eric Parslow

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Robert E. Speer

Al forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of what is already known. Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

Susan Sontag

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

Serj Tankian

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!

Sasha Azevedo

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.

D.H. Lawrence

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Izaak Walton

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Arthur Erickson