Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Tse Tung

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Giovanni Boccaccio

And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

Proverb

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Trammell Crow

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

Timothy Radcliffe

The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

Albert Einstein

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

Trey Anastasio

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.

Leonard Brandwein

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

Stevie Nicks

The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff. Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk

Michael Crichton, Speech, 2003

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.

Salvador Dali