We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

Regardless of which candidate each of us supported as individuals, the only way to move forward is to move forward together.

Tim Cook

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tom Stoppard

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

Yael Naim

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you are young.

Samuel Ullman

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

Michel de Montaigne

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Robin G. Collingwood

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Frances Wright

It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.

Scottish Proverb

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Thomas Carlyle

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

John Green