This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station. And what you're doing now isn't traveling, it's just changing countries, which is completely different

Paulo Coelho

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

Thomas M. Sterner

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

Peace Pilgrim

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Barry Goldwater

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Sibert Cather

You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.

Bill Goldberg

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

Mitch Albom

Offered a job as book critic for magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to give his opinion about William Wordsworth. Replying perhaps too quickly that Wordsworth had been a Romantic poet, he had been brusquely informed by Chambers that there was no place for him at the magazine. Bellow had often wondered, he told us, what he ought to have said. I suggested that he might have got the job if he'd replied that Wordsworth was a once-revolutionary poet who later became a conservative and was denounced by Browning and others as a turncoat. This seemed to Bellow to be probably right. More interesting was the related question: What if he'd that job?

Christopher Hitchens

Do not shed tears when I have gone but smile instead because I have lived.

David Harkins, Remember Me, 1982

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.

Charles Augustin SainteBeuve, Pe

If there is anything I've learned from Linux, it's that projects have a life of their own, and you should not try to enforce your vision too strongly on them.

Linus Torvalds