If the whole universe has no meaning we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at and the rest of the time thinking about.
Earl Nightingale
I cannot live under pressures from patrons let alone paint.
Michelangelo
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body, it preserves constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
Joseph Addison
My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre ' he muttered to himself 'and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.
Douglas Adams
An artist has no home in Europe, except in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Blaise Pascal
We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.
Lord Byron
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek, they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
Samuel Butler
