Truth does not require your painting, brother; it is itself beauty. Unfold it, and men will be captivated. Take your brush to set off the rainbow, or give a new tinge of splendor to the setting sun, but keep it away from the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley.

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

Ivan Pavlov

A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as such - and to be a rebel in view of contemporary society does not in itself lower the value of a man. There are even cases in which one might have to honour a rebel,because he finds something in our society against which war ought to be waged - he wakens us from our slumber.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

Thomas Jefferson

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

Michel de Montaigne

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Anatole France

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.

Kristen Stewart

When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.

Sri Chinmoy

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

Jules Renard

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Elizabeth Goudge

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Diane Keaton

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

General George Patton