The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Frank Zappa

Life is a dead-end street.

H. L. Mencken

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Benjamin Franklin

Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately complex interweaving of its parts, a means to an end. Surely you wouldn't think this marvel would have come about by itself. The watch must have a maker. Just as the watch has such complex means to an end, so does nature to a much greater extent. Just look at the complexity of the human eye. Thus we must conclude that nature has a maker too!

William Paley

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Francis Bacon

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Jean Francois Lyotard

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

Barbara Corcoran

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?

Sydney Harris

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

Benjamin Franklin