I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ‘work’, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. … It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. ”

“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. ”

It is often the common folks who feels most miserable, and needs the most motivation because they feel they aren’t special. Abraham Lincoln had to say this about the Common People.
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. “

1) “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.”

2) “Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.”

3) “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.”

4) “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

5) “It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.”

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

“Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”

“I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either. ”

“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers”

I have also filed this page under Motivational Speaker category. You see you don’t have to talk to speak!!!
And I would end this page by quoting Helen again, “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. “