My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

Jesse Ventura

Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

What you see is what you see

Frank Stella

If you think you're smart,think twice to be smarter.

Toba Beta

The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

Valerie Jarrett

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Nicolas Chamfort

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

Sting

All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

Eckhart Tolle

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

Lauren Bacall

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

Eric Ries