Mandela Perspective

My trade and my art is living. - Michel De Montaigne

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Character is not what you are in the dark. - Unknown

Compromises are for relationships, not wine. - Robert S Caywood

Life always takes on the character of its motive. - J.G. Holland

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

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

Public behavior is merely private character writ large. - Stephen Covey

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships. - Eric Metaxas

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

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

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - William Osler

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship. - Sharon Stone

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame. - Baltasar Gracian

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. - Mark Twain

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

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

True potential and purpose is not possible without good discipline and good character. - Rattan Singh

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

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life. - Dave Dravecky

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

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

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, all is lost. - Rev. Billy Graham

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Epicurus

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov