When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room

A man who is not ready to risk is not worthy of getting promotion

Limitless Leadership is the secret ingredient that helps common people, create high performance teams, that achieve outstanding and uncommon results.

We have a saying up here. ‘Life is wasted on the living.

Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in other people. Share the truth and be ready for the miracle to unfold

Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Your literary style reflects your personality.