If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

J. G. Ballard

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Walter Benjamin

There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.

John Lord O'Brian

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Bernie Taupin

dari sekolah militer kehidupan: apa yang tidak membunuhku membuatku kuat

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

Andrea Jung

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

Helen Keller

Last year my birthday cake looked like a prairie fire.

Rodney Dangerfield

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

Sean O'Casey

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Christopher Hitchens