I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Bill Maher

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

J. B. Priestley

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Jessamyn West

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

W. Somerset Maugham

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Oscar Wilde

No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.

John Dickinson

The most natural Beauty in the World is Honesty, and Moral Truth. For all Beauty is Truth. True Features make the Beauty of a Face; and true Proportions the Beauty of Architecture; as true Measures that of Harmony and Musick.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

John L'Heureux

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

Will Wright

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

Jeff Goodell

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

William Bernbach