Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Samuel Richardson

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

Unique and different is the next generation of beautiful.

Taylor Swift

I don't think that at the time, or now, come to think of it, I gave a damn. Foolishly, I wanted truth and idealism, but there was none to be had.

Ralph Steadman

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Gloria Naylor

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Mark Twain

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Thomas Aquinas

Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Richard De Bury

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Abraham Lincoln

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

Dan Savage