The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Jean Paul Richter

Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Sir Laurence Olivier

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Mario Vargas Llosa

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Aristotle

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Henry David Thoreau

Lawyers I suppose were children once.

Charles Lamb

The type has been made according to the truth, and the truth has been recognized according to the type.

Blaise Pascal

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Walter Lippmann

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.

David Guetta

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Bill Clinton

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

Milan Kundera