Never choose between your heart or brain. Neither instincts nor anything perfectly planned is always right. Follow what heart says but let brain accompany it.

Most of the time we are too critical to ourselves that we don't see worth in small achievements and feel I could done better. Stop Being Hard to Yourself.

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going.

When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during the weeks we were at war there.

Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

I am attracted to myths.