The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

Bruce Springsteen

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Groucho Marx

So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.

Angela Merkel

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Benjamin Franklin

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Robert Owen

Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.

English Proverb

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

George Bernard Shaw

Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objective being and objective value. Stay on the road. There is Truth. There is a Point and Purpose and Essence to it all. Keep searching. You will find it.

John Piper

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

Steve Case

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

George Bernard Shaw, 1894

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta they go too low.

Sylvia Browne

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

Friedrich Nietzsche