I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
Rhys Ifans
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Nicholas Sparks
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
Alexander Payne
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
bell hooks
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
Bernard Law Montgomery
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
Carl Sagan
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Terry Pratchett
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
Truman Capote