I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.
the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.
The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.
Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.
Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.
'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.
Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite. . . know only how to feed the beast until it dies. Once it is dead, they will be helpless. Don't expect them to save us. They don't know how. . . . and when it all collapses, when our rotten financial system with its trillions in worthless assets implodes and our imperial wars end in humiliation and defeat, the power elite will be exposed as being as helpless, and as self-deluded as the rest of us
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
[Hillary Clinton] was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame. ' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She's talking to me.