This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Giorgio Vasari

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Mignon McLaughlin

Two heads are better than one.

Proverb, Polish proverb: Co dwie

As far as self-confidence goes, so much of social media is about approval, getting likes, comparing our lives to others' - meanwhile, confidence is an inside job: it's about how you feel about yourself regardless of what anyone else does or thinks. It's a knowing that you're human, you're flawed, and you're awesome in your own way.

Jen Sincero

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

Heidi Klum

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

John Ruskin

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

Source Unknown

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

Tommy Lasorda

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

James Fallows

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Stephen King

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

H. L. Mencken

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Michael Tippett