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- Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost.
- Mary C. Taylor, Watercolor Bold and Free
- Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
- Meredith Willson, The Music Man
- You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.
- Meredith Willson, The Music Man
- The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
- Seth MacFarlane, The Family Guy
- The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
- Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Tragedy and the Common Man
- Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Blog
- Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), My Antonia
- It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now!
- Michael Landon (1936 - 1991)
- There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
- Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
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