"Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way."

“Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.”

“The great news is we have an all-female shortlist with no positive discrimination or anything, isn't that fantastic?”

“In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.”

“While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.”

Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.107, Bible Study Steps

“Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.”

“I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.”

Source : Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

“To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will be able to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to taste without a palate, to smell without a nose, and to feel without hands and without skin. Nations who believe themselves very rational, adopt, nevertheless, such ideas.”

Source : Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach, Voltaire , Voltaire, Anna Knoop, L. W. De Laurence, Jean Meslier (2010). “Superstition in All Ages”, p.148, Lulu.com

“My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.”