There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
—Pablo Picasso
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
—Soren Kierkegaard
Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.
—Carlos A. Urbizo
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
—Shelley Winters
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
—Harold Wilson
I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.
—Markus Zusak in The Book Thief
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
—Abraham Lincoln
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
—Zane Grey
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
—Mark Twain
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
—G. K. Chesterton
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
—Henry David Thoreau
The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith.
—Vivienne de Watteville
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something, and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the one thing I can do.
—Edward Everett Hale
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
—Peter Matthiessen
However fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, thinks and lives fashionably; virtue and honor will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honor will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so.
—Robertson Davies