A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

No, a fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others.

Otto von Bismarck, reply when to

People fall forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealised past.

Robertson Davies, A Voice from t

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.

Derek Fisher

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

K Lee Lerner

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

Jaron Lanier

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Elie Tahari

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

Rick Danko

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.

Ron Fournier

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve

Pope, Alexander