"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see things that are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it."
— Danny Kaye