Art is what separates us from the animals.

Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.

Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"

Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.

The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.

To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good".

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.

A peaceful soul haunts the warring mind.

Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child.

J!m squinted his first hate of the day.

I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.

This is just one little part of who I am, and I'm not gonna let my sexuality define or confine me. It's part of me, it's not all of me.

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.

In the U.S., philanthropic support from entrepreneurs is tightly integrated into the fabric of society, whether it's health care, medical research, or education. Now, slowly, China will know this.

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up