Kary Brooks

The very essence of the creative is its novelty; and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

[Kary Brooks @xievarand]

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

[Kary Brooks @xievarand]

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

[Kary Brooks @xievarand]

Make it thy business to know thyself; which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

[Kary Brooks @xievarand]

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

[Kary Brooks @xievarand]

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

[Kary Brooks @xievarand]

Anger; if not restrained; is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

[Kary Brooks @xievarand]

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

[Kary Brooks @xievarand]

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on; it adds up.