It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

You've got to step up, Emme. They need to hear your voice, hear you. You're better than being stuck in the background.

Elizabeth Eulberg

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

Bill Gates

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

Giorgio Armani

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

John Milton, The Devils Advocate

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

David Nicholls

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Georges Bataille

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.

Carl Sagan

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Jeff Bezos

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Mark Twain

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

Cassandra Clare

Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!

Michael Bernard Beckwith