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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest

endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
Otto Dix

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.
John Moody

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
John Stuart Mill

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
P. G. Wodehouse

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Bryant H. McGill

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers

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