Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Donald Rumsfeld

you do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.

Neil Gaiman

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

Megan Fox

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

Abraham Lincoln

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

Ronald Reagan

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

Danica McKellar

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day

George Eliot

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

Look up and not down;Look forward and not back;Look out and not in;Lend a Hand.

Edward Everett Hale

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Thomas Jefferson

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

R. Buckminster Fuller