If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

Aldrich Ames

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Blaise Pascal

Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!

Helen Rowland

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

Francoise Sagan

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Martin Zimet

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

Mike Mills

The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.

John Lewis

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

Voltaire