Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Every comforting word is a command from a man of action...While every word of command is commotion from a man of just words...

Dream mean, not sleeping and feel, dream is like you cant sleep untill fulfill

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.

I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.

If you obsess about the next, you will miss what you need in the now and ultimately, sacrifice the next.

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.