A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.
One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
Society's the mother of convention.
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.
Where there's a will there's a detective story.
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
I'm just the same age I've always been.
Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke.
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.