Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

John Charles Polanyi

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Max Beerbohm

Without obsession, life is nothing.

John Waters

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

Jerry Saltz

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

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Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

Benny Green

As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Albert Einstein

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

George Eliot

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Dolly Parton