Mandela Perspective

Fate is character. - William Winter

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. - John Wooden

Appropriate rules cultivate a disciplined character. - Bill Welker

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way. - Allen Klein

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. - Benjamin Disraeli

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs. - Homer Simpson

While your circumstances are beyond your control, your character is not. - John C Maxwell

In a comic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. - Carl Sagan

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

John Wooden was a hall of fame character long before he was a hall of fame coach. - John C Maxwell

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. - Ronald Reagan

Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable. - Khang K. Nguyen

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. - Elizabeth Clarke Dunn

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. - Jodie Foster

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word. - Lord Chesterfield

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

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself. - John Leguizamo

The real test of your character is your treatment of those who can be of no possible service to you. - Unknown

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. - Nelson Mandela

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