A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

Lawrence Lessig

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

Cassandra Clare

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Dee Hock

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Leo Rosten

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Bill Bryson

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Pablo Picasso

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.

Zhuangzi

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Benjamin Franklin

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment.

Danny Wallace

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon

I cannot bear it! said the pewter soldier. I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.

Hans Christian Andersen

To give your best is to receive the best.

Raymond Holliwell