Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Thomas Carlyle

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

John Lennon

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.

Nikolai Gogol

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Proverb

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

Thomas Friedman

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

Tom Peters

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there we're a band of brothers.

Stevie Nicks

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

Lech Walesa

Selflessness = Greatness

Ogunlela Olu

More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.

William Shakespeare

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

Ida Tarbell

It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.

Marc Jacobs