Favorite Quotes

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. ~Norman Podhoretz


Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer. ~Terri Guillemets


A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. ~Oscar Wilde


"How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. - Confucius

"Those that deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." by Abraham Lincoln

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much - Oscar Wilde.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -Edgar Allan Poe

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."
-Saint Augustine

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen, from To Love and Be Loved