Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Susan Orlean

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto von Bismarck

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Joyce Meyer

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

Bo Bennett

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Thomas Fuller

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

Augusten Burroughs

If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault that I accepted one movie and turned down another. I don't see any point in defending myself, either.

Klaus Kinski

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Jose Rizal

Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.

Lord Weinstock

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Italo Calvino

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.

Lewis Thomas