Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

Eric Hoffer

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.

Joshua Bell

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

Terry Goodkind

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

Jodi Picoult

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Leslie Caron

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Doris Day

La lassitude est la fin des actes d'une vie machinale, mais elle inaugure en même temps le mouvement de la conscience. Elle l'éveille et elle provoque la suite. La suite, c'est le retour inconscient dans la chaîne, ou c'est l'éveil définitif. Au bout de l'éveil vient avec le temps, la conséquence: suicide ou rétablissement.

Albert Camus

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Alan Perlis

The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.

Thomas Friedman

It's hard to keep family life and workplace separated.

Monique Lhuillier