Mandela Perspective

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

A root is a flower that disdains fame. - Kahlil Gibran

Character is not what you are in the dark. - Unknown

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

Do what you know and perception is converted into character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

Fame: The advantage of being known to those who do not know us. - Sebastien Chamfort

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

I was always a character actor: I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. - Paul Newman

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

John Wooden was a hall of fame character long before he was a hall of fame coach. - John C Maxwell

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted. - Lawrence Summers

As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice: You can be right or you can be happy. - Ralphie May

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. - Albert Einstein

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

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

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. - Mark Zuckerberg

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

From a shy, timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles. - Anna Dostoevsky

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. - Andre Maurois

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. - Charles De Gaulle

Forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they're sorry, and an even stronger person to forgive. - Yolanda Hadid

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown