The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

John Phillips

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

Andre Rieu

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

Neil Gaiman

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Aubrey Beardsley

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Bill Cosby

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent Van Gogh

If you love a person without loving God, which is the goodness inside of him, then you plant the seeds for future disappointments and sufferings with this love.

Leo Tolstoy

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Marcel Marceau

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Thomas S. Kuhn