If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

A babe in the house is a well spring of pleasure a messenger of peace and love a resting place for innocence on earth a link between angels and men.

As frost to the bud and blight to the blossom even such is self interest to friendship for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth but that which hatred swelleth is keen to carve out evil.

Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

The mines of knowledge are oft laid bare through the forked hazel wand of chance.

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than

Anger is a noble infirmity, the generous failing of the just, the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread;

A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.

A babe in the house is a wellspring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.