If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

John Mason Brown

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Alan Paton

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Baudjuin

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Albert Camus

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

George Eliot

If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.

Jerry Saltz

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

Giordano Bruno

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Don King

I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Aleister Crowley

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Gottfried Leibniz

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Johann von Goethe