Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr. , La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme. ]
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
When I first came out to L. A. , Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.