It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Walter Savage Landor

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.

Oscar Wilde

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

Stevie Smith

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. Our attitude towards the fearful necessity of war ought to be stern. It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war and not a game. Otherwise, war is a favourite pastime of the idle and frivolous...

Leo Tolstoy

In idleness there is a perpetual despair

Thomas Carlyle

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

Bruce Lee

Life is gives to us in the same way as a child is given to a nanny, so that is can be raised to maturity.

Leo Tolstoy

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

William Shakespeare

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Jean Rostand

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Wieder Marcia

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Daniel Chopin

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

Mark Twain