Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. Do y

Ben Okri

The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.

Thomas Jefferson

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

Lenny Bruce

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

Dierks Bentley

I think, without question, that unemployment of more than 6 per cent is something to be concerned about. You don't push the panic button, but you don't relax and enjoy it either... I myself don't believe in a numbers game in which you give a maximum tolerable percentage, because I think, truly, it does vary with the times... I would hesitate to specify the figure today, but I will say this: it would be, in my mind, less than a 4 per cent figure - that is, for the period ahead. I would not, realistically, think we could hope for a 2 per cent figure in the near future, as certain European countries have been able to do. But I do think that if we are pretty zealous in this matter and insist upon getting low figures - say, 3.5 per cent - then our very success in accomplishing that may lead to a new epoch just beyond when we could hope to go below 3 per cent...

Paul A. Samuelson, (interview),

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

Plato

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Margaret J. Wheatley

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

Heraclitus

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

Pierre de Coubertin

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Peter Rena