True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.

Oliver St. John Gogarty

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

Marquis de Sade

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

Venus Williams

And so today, my world it smiles,Your hand in mine, we walk the miles,Thanks to you it will be done,For you to me are the only one.

Led Zeppelin

I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

Anthony Wayne

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Margaret Sanger

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Joseph Roux

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Sophocles

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.

Chevy Chase

This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

Victor Hugo

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand