Quotes of the day, May 13

For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

Michelangelo

• Soul
• Painting
• Harmony

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Henrik Ibsen

• Right
• Majority
• Minority

If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn't even surf.

Clay Marzo

• Surf
• Barrels

But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Sandra Cisneros

• World
• Understanding
• Humanity

We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God.

Sun Myung Moon

• Crazy
• Should
• Leader

I tried my best on audition for X-Files, and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.

Rhys Darby

• Auditions
• Files