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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.
There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart." -George to Alanna
It is not the position, but the disposition.
I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle. -Heath Champion-
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?
The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world
If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.
We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
