[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all existence, so now they seemed as petty and insignificant in comparison with the brilliant sunshine in which the future was bathed. He went on with his work but now he felt that the centre of gravity of his attention had shifted, making him look at his work quite differently and with greater clarity. Formerly this work had been an escape from life: he used to feel that without it life would be too gloomy. Now he needed it so that life might not be too uniformly bright.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Ed McMahon

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

Chris Rock

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Paul Allen

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

Auberon Herbert

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

Nate Silver

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Josh Billings

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Laurence J. Peter

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

Aristotle

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Francis Picabia

Quiconque lutte contre des monstres devrait prendre garde, dans le combat, ? ne pas devenir monstre lui-même. Et quant ? celui qui scrute le fond de l'abysse, l'abysse le scrute ? son tour.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Zora Neale Hurston