Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

John Webster

For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

Jacqueline Emerson

To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.

Maurice Young

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

Paul Gauguin

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

James Gleick

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

Herb Kelleher

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

Rupert Murdoch

The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest

Albert Einstein

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

Bethenny Frankel

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice,

John Stuart Mill, "First publish

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean Jacques Rousseau