And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Paul Klee

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

Omar Bongo

Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Ayrton Senna

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

Oscar Wilde

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

Jeff Bridges

Perhaps The truth depends on a walk around a lake, A composing as the body tires, a stop To see hepatica, a stop to watch A definition growing certain and A wait within that certainty, a rest In the swags of pine-trees bordering the lake. Perhaps there are times of inherent excellence

Wallace Stevens

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Ayn Rand