Don't mind what people say to you, find out what you have in yourself and do your best, that is the only hope in life

One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.

It is true that the environment does have an influence but what has much greater effect on the artist is love or hatred.He uses his setting to express these things.

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.

The bigger the words the weaker the voice.

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.