After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...

The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.

Victor Hugo

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.

Jane Taylor

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Herman Melville

The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world symphony and to re-project them in the form of concepts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

Herbert Simon

If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.

Ryan Gosling

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dean Kamen

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Victor Hugo

What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only entities which can have responsibilities are people.

Milton Friedman

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

William Shenstone