To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

George Santayana

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

All of us are crazy in one way or another.

Yiddish Proverb

Adapted from an L.L. Bean Co. poster: What is a customer? by J. M. Eaten

Mark Twain

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Voltaire

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

Jerry Saltz

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

Russell Baker

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Marcus Aurelius

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Friedrich von Schiller

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Soren Kierkegaard

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

Nassau William Senior