Mandela Perspective

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

Habits form character, and character forms destiny. - James Allen

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

Find someone who will change your life, not just your relationship status. - Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. - Erma Bombeck

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling. - Stephen R. Covey

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. - Jean Paul Richter

No matter how much fame and fortune you achieve, don't get wrapped up in yourself. - Dal Richards

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger. - Howie Mandel

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated. - Honor Blackman

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. - Xavier Becerra

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. - Robert Frost

The best rule of thumb for character is to remember that if you can't be big, don't belittle. - Unknown

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. - Jack Horner

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. - William Henry Channing

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. - Ingrid Bergman

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

While some pain is probably inevitable in all relationships, successful couples are usually the ones who are able to forgive. - Ilona Boniwell

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a 'nervous system', to coordinate its actions. - Bill Gates

Never design your character like a garden where anyone can walk. Design your character like the sky where everyone's desire is to reach. - Unknown

Education commences on the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. - W H Auden