Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it