I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

John F. Kennedy Jr.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Agnes Repplier

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

Masaru Ibuka

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

Meg Whitman

I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.

Jim Balsillie

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Paracelsus

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Ida P. Rolf

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Remy de Gourmont

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

Mike Tyson

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

Amy Grant

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Ralph W. Sockman