Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions.... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Thomas Carlyle

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

Virginia Woolf

First: the best is the enemy of the good, trying to be perfect or trying to meet infinite context will both make you crazy and make you miss your launch date. The only thing to do is to create a product for your users. Not The User but the specific audience for whom your product is intended.quoting Voltaire best is the enemy of the good

Christina Wodtke

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

Heather Donahue

The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

Anthony Lewis

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

Andrew Wyeth

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

Carl Sagan

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

Niccolo Machiavelli

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

David Miliband

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce

In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.

Immanuel Kant

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

Ray Kroc