"Less is more" is said to have been one of the favorite maxims of architect Mies Van der Rohe.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Henry David Thoreau

Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Heinrich Heine

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty—they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.end quote

Martin Buxbaum

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Gail Simmons

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so,it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that gaurds the door,and this dragon is religion

Bertrand Russell

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Ambrose Bierce

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

Stafford Cripps

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

Don Shula

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Dag Hammarskjold

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Confucius