You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao Tzu
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
Ray Bradbury
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
Steve Jobs
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales
Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!
Mitch Hedberg
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Alan Watts
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
Walt Whitman
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken
In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
Mason Cooley
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
John F. Kennedy
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Thomas Fuller
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz Kafka
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
Dave Barry
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Gore Vidal
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