"Most problems created on the Two-Hearted Path begin when we follow our compulsive minds and leave the gift of spiritual guidance in the dust of our disregard. In contrast, when we bring our spirits home to our hearts, and become One-Hearted, our potentials come alive."
--John Kimmey
The Hopi Prophecy and the Time of Purification
 

"Readily will I display the intestinal fortitude required to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission though I be the lone survivor."
-- excerpt from The Ranger Creed
 

"Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write."
--Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella
 

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes"
--Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman
Of Adversity
 

 "A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier."
--Gustave Flaubert

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
--Mark Twain

"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."
--Salvidor Dali

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
--Groucho Marx

"Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth."
--Pablo Picasso

"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
--Gilbert Highet

"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read."
--Mark Twain
 
 "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
--Voltaire, French philosopher and author
 
 "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
--Frank Zappa
 
"Everything you can imagine is real."
--Pablo Picasso

"I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise."
--Vangelis

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
--Émile Zola
 
 "The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random."
--Andre Breton
 
"Architecture is frozen music."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, playwright, novelist, and scientist

"Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
--Kelvin Throop III

"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word."
--Mata Hari
 
 "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; it is the source of all true art and science."
--Albert Einstein
 
"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding."
--Anatole Broyard

"[Writing] has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
--Rebecca West

"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
--Philip Johnson

"Music and silence . . . combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."
--Marcel Marceau

"The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age."
--Orson Welles

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it—don't cheat with it."
--Ernest Hemingway
 
 "I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss—you can't do it alone."
--John Cheever
 
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
--Ernest Hemingway
 
 "Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write."
--Jean Anouilh
 
 "The essence of tragedy is to know the end."
--Charles W. Ferguson
 
 "The mission of the playwright . . . is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment, to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play."
--Robert Anderson
 
"People . . . have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work."
--Anatole Broyard

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
--Tom Stoppard

"Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power."
--Marcel Marceau