Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.

Louis Debonnaire

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

Alexander Skarsgard

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

Maynard James Keenan

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Andrew Grove

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

Raymond Chandler

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so.

Ronald Reagan

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

Rene Descartes

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

Simon Hoggart

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

Aldous Huxley

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Walter Savage Landor