Doctor, as I believe you would not choose to tell any thing but the truth, you had better tell him, that I am dying as fast as my enemies, if I have any, could wish, and as easily and cheerfully as my best friends could desire.the him referred to is his friend Colonel Edmondstone

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Pablo Neruda

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Wayne Dyer

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Steve Jobs

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.

William James

Our tax law is a 1, 598-page hydra-headed monster and I'm going to attack and attack and attack until I have ironed out every fault in it.

Vivien Kellems

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

Major Taylor

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Douglas William Jerrold

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Napoleon Hill

The whole thing that makes a mathematician's life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

Donald Knuth

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus