Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

At Lead Star, we believe that leadership can help you create a better workplace, a better life, and a better you.

I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.

The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.

Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

Excellent anthology... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs.

When you believe in something and you are a good person, good things happen.

Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.