Mandela Perspective

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Death ends a life, not a relationship. - Jack Lemmon

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

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

Few maxims are true from every point of view. - Marquis de Lac de Clapiers Vauvenargue

Life always takes on the character of its motive. - J.G. Holland

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. - Solon

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

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

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character. - Brian Tracy

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs. - Woody Hayes

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. - C S Lewis

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. - Jodie Foster

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. - Henry Drummond

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life. - Dave Dravecky

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - Malcolm S Forbes

If a man's character is to be abused, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. - Alexander Pope

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent. - Ingrid Newkirk

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

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

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

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

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. - Toni Morrison

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

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

I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing. - Tim Allen