Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
- Edward Hopper
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
- Marshall McLuhan
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
- Petrarch
Diversity means understanding.
- Stuart Scott
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.
- Isaac Watts
Don’t worry if you don’t complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.
- Ivy Lee
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
- Iris Murdoch
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
- Pasquier Quesnel
We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace.
- Cheech Marin
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
- John Quincy Adams
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
- John Calvin
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
- Dean Koontz
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
- Jean de La Fontaine
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
- Gustav Mahler
As I’ve said before, time is short, and life is precious.
- Nancy Reagan
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
- P. T. Barnum
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
By all means use some time to be alone.
- Edward Young
No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning.
- Richard Petty
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
- Princess Diana
Shadow owes its birth to light.
- John Gay
We find it hard to believe that other people’s thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
- James Harvey Robinson
If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
- Mel Brooks