Mandela Perspective

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. - J.B. Gough

Appropriate rules cultivate a disciplined character. - Bill Welker

Character is not given to us; we build it ourselves. - Mabel Hale

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

Do what you know and perception is converted into character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view. - Walter Murch

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. - Charles Simmons

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

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. - Austin O'Malley

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. - Truman Capote

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune. - Amelia Earhart

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

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. - James Allen

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. - Lin Yutang

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

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw. - Harvey Mackay

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day. - Suzy Kassem

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

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

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. - Andre Maurois

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles