Mandela Perspective

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Character is perfectly educated will. - Novalis

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Life is a relationship between molecules. - Linus Pauling

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. - Booker T. Washington

A unicorn is just a horse with a point of view. - Ron Sexsmith

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. - Cyrus A. Bartol

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

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success. - John Hays Hammond

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. - Paul Newman

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. - Napoleon Hill

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

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

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

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

Character is that which reveals moral purposes, exposing the class of things man chooses or avoids. - Aristotle

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the minds and spirit. - David Jeremiah

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

Albert Schweitzer's philosophy is that a sick, miserable African of today can be a strong healthy cannibal tomorrow. - Joe E Lewis

While some pain is probably inevitable in all relationships, successful couples are usually the ones who are able to forgive. - Ilona Boniwell

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character. - J K Rowling

I not only knew Houdini, but we had a very lovely relationship. I really though we had something going, and then the son of a gun disappeared. - Betty White