The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Your friend is your needs answered.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.