Quote of the Day

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Salvador Dali

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

William Styron

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

J.K. Rowling

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

Louis D. Brandeis

To me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your heart where there is hope and faith and try to embrace that rather than crush it. I've spent so many years trying to crush those feelings of hope, and I certainly succeeded for quite a while.

Dave Gahan

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

John Milton

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Cary Grant

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

William C. Bryant

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

Kate Walsh

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Barry Eisler

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Studs Terkel

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Amy Tan

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

John Locke

Peace begins with a smile..

Mother Teresa

Art lies by its own artifice.

Ovid

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton