Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

Jerry Lewis

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Matthew 9:37

Bible

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

George Boole

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

The actual well seen is ideal.

Thomas Carlyle

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Patricia Highsmith

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Nadia Boulanger

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

Retief Goosen

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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