Life is an unfoldment and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere but they're just not comedians. In fact some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

A strong positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Toleration is the best religion.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

In a completely rational society the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation the man of manly character and of wisdom.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

Experience hath shewn that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.

There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them and they cannot be silent if they would and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Beauty like truth is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

The arts quite simply nourish the soul. They sustain comfort inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction but in a very general way as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

As an inspiration to the author I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace power beauty motion mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not.