Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

We grow small trying to be great.
- David Hockney

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
- Emile Zola

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
- Bill Cosby

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
- John Bach

You can’t be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing.
- Lewis Freedman

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
- Dr. Edwin Land

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
- Emiliano Zapata

The greatest pleasure of life is love.
- Euripedes

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
- Elbert Hubbard

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
- August Rodin

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- Anais Nin

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
- Roman Polanski

Only the educated are free.
- Epicetetus

The days you work are the best days.
- Georgia O'Keeffe

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
- Jay Leno

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- Russell Baker

If you want to be loved, be lovable.
- Ovid

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
- Anatole France

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward Bulwer-Lyton

One eye sees, the other feels.
- Paul Klee

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
- May Sarton

On the other hand, you have different fingers.
- Steven Wright

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
- David Grayson

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Paul Gauguin

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
- W. C. Fields

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
- Hannah Arendt

Life is short, the art long.
- Hippocrates

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
- Marya Mannes

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
- Anatole France

Fate loves the fearless.
- James Russell Lowell

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- Thomas Merton

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
- H. G. Wells

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
- Salvador Dali

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon

Nothing will work unless you do.
- Maya Angelou

Art is the objectification of feeling.
- Herman Melville

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
- Saint Augustine

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
- Laurence J. Peter

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
- Thomas Browne

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
- Elbert Hubbard

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
- E. M. Forster

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H.L. Mencken

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
- Frank A. Clark

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
- John Donne

A good garden may have some weeds.
- Thomas Fuller

The more you know the less you need to say.
- Jim Rohn

All nature is but art unknown to thee.
- Alexander Pope

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas Gandhi

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
- Gustave Flaubert

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
- George Burns

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn

I do not seek. I find.
- Pablo Picasso

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
- Ambrose Bierce

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

Nature does nothing uselessly.
- Aristotle

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
- Mark Twain

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
- Robert Schumann

Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
- Samuel Johnson

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
- Samuel Johnson

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
- Rene Descartes

At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need.
- Meredith from Grey's Anatomy

Fate loves the fearless.
- James Russell Lowell

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If something we didn't know we had disappears, do we miss it?
- Meredith from Grey's Anatomy