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The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.
I cannot imagine a Christian who does not know how to smile. May we joyfully witness to our faith.
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.
Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.
If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?
The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.
I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
I never wanted to go for the cute boys. Why would you wanna have a boyfriend that's cuter than you?
Little cute thing said, what's yo' name? I put my necklace in her face and told her read the chain.
I love the little suckers; they're so cute. But I love sleep so much, and I worry about everything.
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot.
May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.