A Fine Selection of Daily Quotes

“The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.”

"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity."

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

"Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie."

"...and those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success."

"We artists are indestructable, even in a prison cell or concentration camp I would be almighty in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell."

"The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul."

"Two rules to success in life. 1. Don't tell people everything you know."

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."

"You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last."

"Events are only inevitable after they happen."

"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

"Power is safest in a poets hands. Thus for the artist God will pose."

"Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

"Let the waters settle and you will see the stars and moon mirrored in your being."

"We are here on earth to help others. What the others are here for, I've no idea."

"A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove."