Our history is not our destiny.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Alexander Calder

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Billy Connolly

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

Edward Bond

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

Robert Morgan

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Carole King

Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

Jodi Picoult

Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound, Young voices sing; Wreathe every door with snow-white voices round, For lo! 't is Spring! Winter has passed with its sad funeral train, And Love revives again.

Lewis Morris (poet)

Life is not fair get used to it.

Bill Gates

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Arthur Koestler

My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.

Lara Stone

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Malcolm X