College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.

Steve Maraboli

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

Henry David Thoreau

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

Rowan Atkinson

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

Alain de Botton, on Arthur Schop

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Bill Gates

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

Niklas Zennstrom

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

Jon Meacham

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

H. P. Lovecraft

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

Paul Wellstone

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Harry Mathews

There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Morley

Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe