An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

Atul Gawande

The life which passes mourns its wasted hour. And, ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and paradise!

George William Russell

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

David Ogilvy

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

Tadao Ando

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

G. W. F. Hegel

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Ambrose Bierce

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Robert Southey

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Hart Pomerantz

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

Sherry Stringfield

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

Mike Krzyzewski

I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.

Susan Smith