"Wrestling is ballet with violence." — Jesse Ventura, American wrestler and politician, born July 15, 1951
"To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better." — Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer, died January 27, 1901
"You may have the universe if I may have Italy." — Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer, born October 9, 1813
"Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real." — Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, born December 2, 1946
"Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes." — Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian poet, born August 20, 1897
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." — Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance painter, born April 15, 1452
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death." — Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance painter, born April 15, 1452
"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain." — Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance painter, born April 15, 1452
"The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything." — Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance painter, born April 15, 1452
"Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest." — Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath, born April 15, 1452
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light." — Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance painter, died May 2, 1519
"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark." — Swami Vivekananda, Indian Hindu monk, born January 12, 1863