Mandela Perspective

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

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

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

Character is perfectly educated will. - Novalis

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

The great hope of society is individual character. - William Ellery Channing

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

Appropriate rules cultivate a disciplined character. - Bill Welker

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

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

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

Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes. - Unknown

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. - John Wooden

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

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

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

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective. - Paul Anka

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. - Thomas J. Barnardo

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Xylophone: Revolutionary communication device that turns the sounds of the voice into a mellow, musical chime - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

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

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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