The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

Andrew Jackson

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

Gabriela Sabatini

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Benjamin Disraeli

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Hannah Arendt

You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.

Michael Nutter

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

Thomas Jefferson

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

The land was ours before we were the lands.

Robert Frost

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Oscar Wilde