Jackson Pollock: The painting...

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
/Jackson Pollock/

Kenneth Hare: The puritan...

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
/Kenneth Hare/

David Thomas: If there...

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
/David Thomas/

John Barth: Everyone is...

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
/John Barth/

Blaise Pascal: Between us...

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
/Blaise Pascal/

Muhammad Iqbal: Rise above...

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
/Muhammad Iqbal/

P. J. O'Rourke: A hat...

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
/P. J. O'Rourke/

Jay Leno: Bush reiterated...

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
/Jay Leno/

Lin Yutang: I like...

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colours are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.
/Lin Yutang/

Scott Ian: Music and...

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
/Scott Ian/

David Hume: On the...

On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either of mind or body. This circumstance vanishes and becomes absolutely insignificant, on the religious theory: The one sex has an equal task to perform as the other: Their powers of reason and resolution ought also to have been equal, and both of them infinitely greater than at present.
/David Hume/

Thomas Jefferson: I never...

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.
/Thomas Jefferson/

Walt Disney: I always...

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
/Walt Disney/

Anna Quindlen: There is...

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.
/Anna Quindlen/

Fred Savage: I would...

I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
/Fred Savage/