Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
—Susanne Langer (American Philosopher, Writer)
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better—it is just turning around as usual.
—Finley Peter Dunne (American Humorist)
A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.
—Daisaku Ikeda (Japanese Philosopher)
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
—B. C. Forbes (Scottish-born American Journalist)
Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
—Lawrence G. Lovasik (American Priest)
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
—Wendell Phillips (American Abolitionist)
On privacy and the birth of Prince William: I felt the whole country was in labor with me.
—Diana, Princess of Wales (English Royal)
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
—Paul Eldridge (American Poet)
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga—stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
—Edward Hoagland (American Essayist)
If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.
—Robert Hillyer (American Poet)
I think everyone has a story. Everyone has something they’re going through. If you can just give them a little bit of a break, a little bit of a laugh, that’s a big deal.
—Jimmy Fallon (American Comedian)
They that know no evil will suspect none.
—Ben Jonson (English Dramatist)
I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example’s always clear.
—Edgar Guest (British-born American Poet)