If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

No man knows himself as an original.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.

You were born for a purpose and a special reason.Your purpose identifies your passion, your potential, the source of your fulfilment in life, and ultimately your success

A single man is minority, a leader is the majority.

The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.