Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

Leonardo da Vinci

Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

Swami Vivekananda

Art must destroy violence, only it can do it.

Leo Tolstoy

Optimism is an expectation of the future, but hope is a way of experiencing the present. Optimism argues with the predictions of cynicism and bitterness, and is often proved wrong. Hope rejects cynicism and bitterness as unhelpful, and is perennially proved right.

Doug Muder