In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

Sherrod Brown

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Ernest Newman

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Samuel Johnson

I don't believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

Paulo Coelho

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

Socrates

It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he drags us who knew nothing of rhetoric away with him, as if the matter at issue here were of no moment, but simply a lot of quibbling, and dashes bravely out of the crowded court, crowned with ivy and laurel.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

John Howe

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

Michelle Bachelet

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

Lee Child

Look down at me and you see a fool;

Charles Manson

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

Luis Barragan