Art lies by its own artifice.
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.
On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
There's no one way to the top. Make your own opportunities. See around corners. Raise your hand for assignments.
The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.
More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.
Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in.
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
