I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Michel de Montaigne

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Robert Half

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

Nate Silver

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.

Albert Einstein

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Joseph Conrad

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

Robert Herrick

Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

A.E. Housman, The Name and Natur

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.

George Orwell

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

John Gray

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

Roy H. Williams

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Pete Townshend