I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really... →
Bernadette Peters
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch
A learned man has always riches in himself.
Phaedrus
It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
Eden Phillpotts
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
Jean Piaget
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And... →
According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't... →
Charlie Pierce
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
Robert M. Pirsig