You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.

There were a couple of occasions in India when I was twenty that felt to me like going out with a thimble in your hand, hoping to catch a drop of rain, and having the ocean land on your head. These experiences convinced me that there is an absolute love that pervades everything.

David James Duncan

Whether you think you can or think you can't – you are right.

Henry Ford

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Bernard Law Montgomery

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

Phaedrus

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Quentin Crisp

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Aleister Crowley

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

John Rollwagen

A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.

Suzanne Fields

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.

Gustave Flaubert

When a heart finds another, what's a cloud more or less in the sky?

Wolf and Page