When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Edgar Degas

Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

Cameron Crowe

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Chanakya

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Jean Rostand

Time is bunk.

Douglas Adams

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Pablo Picasso, Quoted in: Jaime

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Pablo Picasso

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Aristophanes

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

Howard Dean

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Denis Waitley

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.

Steve Maraboli

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

Allen Boyd