I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

John Green

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

Ann-Margret

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Linus Torvalds

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

Howard Nemerov

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life, that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.

American Indian Proverb, Cheyenn

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

John Wooden

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Georg Buchner

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Sun Tzu

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Michel Foucault

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Voltaire