The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Woodrow Wilson

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Plautus

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

Paul Cezanne

At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'

Rob Sheffield

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Petrarch

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Frederick Law Olmsted

Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no else has thought

Albert Einstein

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

John Williamson

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

Ryan White

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

LeRoy Neiman

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Henry Ford