The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.

If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

A quantity which is increased or decreased by an infinitely small quantity is neither increased nor decreased.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face.

I believe that the Cuban Adjustment Act must be re-examined.

A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

Music gives 'wings' to words.