Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Mignon McLaughlin

Accordingly, it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement.

Tim Holden

Design is not for philosophy -- it's for life.

Issey Miyake

The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

Kelly Clarkson

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

George Eliot

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

Barbara Walters

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

Jennifer Aniston

No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

Stephen Colbert

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

Proverb

I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

Nas

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky