If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Thomas Alva Edison

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Karl Kraus

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Elizabeth Moon

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. We are constantly remarking on the fact that things are done well by people other than ourselves. The Japanese are a remarkable little people, we say, as if we were doing them a favor. He is an Arab, but you ought to hear him play the zither. Why but?

Robert Benchley, Isn't It Remark

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Kahlil Gibran

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

Taylor Swift

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

Steven Morrissey

Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

George Herbert

Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

Laurence Housman

I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

Simon Callow

Manusia tidak akan dapat menuai cinta sampai dia merasakan perpisahan yang menyedihkan, dan yang mampu membuka pikirannya, merasakan kesabaran yang pahit dan kesulitan yang menyedihkan

Kahlil Gibran