It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it -- the speed of his acceptance.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Eugenio Montale

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Neil Gaiman

His life was gentle; and the elementsSo mixed in him, that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Russell H. Ewing

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

George Sheehan

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

Leo Tolstoy

Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

George Soros

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Voltaire

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Gustave Courbet