Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would he this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Ann Landers

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

Baron Grimm

You can never really know someone completely. That's why it's the most terrifying thing in the world, really - taking someone on faith, hoping they'll take you on faith too. It's such a pre-carious balance, it's a wonder we do it at all.

Libba Bray

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Lee Iacocca

That science is incapable of solving in its own way those fundamental questions is no sufficient reason for slighting them

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

The work will stand, no matter what.

Meryl Streep

Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time.

James Dye

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S. Truman

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Oscar Wilde

Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like What Sarah Said : I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.

Ben Gibbard

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Philip Johnson