Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Pearl S. Buck

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

Enrico Bombieri

Vergnügen ist ein Lied der Freiheit, - Aber es ist keine Freiheit.

Kahlil Gibran

Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Victor Hugo

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

George Santayana

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

Neil Gaiman

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

Oliver Stone

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

James A. Lovell

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

Samuel Butler