The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

Chuck Close

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

Federico Fellini

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Ernest Hemingway

All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

Aldous Huxley

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

George Santayana

For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than in a straight line, These rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are are of two kinds, either centrifugal,vziz.

Maimonides

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence

Benjamin Franklin

Every creature is a word of God.

Meister Eckhart

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Wayne Dyer

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Chief Joseph

Whatever comes in my way, I take it with smile.

Kubra Sait