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“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
Source : Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1830). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary by Tho. Tyrwhitt”, p.94
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“the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.”
Source : Arnulf Rainer, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1989). “Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition”, Not Avail
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“I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.”
Source : "For Cicely Tyson and Kerry Washington, Roles of a Lifetime". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2013. 
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“There's a generation of people that do fetishize books and do fetishize catalogues and do look at them as something important. The same thing with magazine culture: because magazines don't make the amount of money that they used to, it's become important again to another generation of people to actually read them. And it's very, very pinpointed to the select people that actually fetishize and go in and look at them.”
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“Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.”
Source : Meladee McCarty (1996). “Daily Journal of Kindness: A Year Long Guide for Creating Your Own Kindness Revolution”, Hci
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“What if destiny doesn't care?”
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“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
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“Let the fame calm down first and then do something. I don't act on emotion, I don't spend on impulse.”
Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
