Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Aristotle

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Victor Kiam

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

A man must pay the fiddler, in my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

John Barrymore

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

Katharine Graham

The object of the superior man is truth.

Confucius

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Brian Eno

He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.

Orson Scott Card

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

Nicholson Baker

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

Matthew Macfadyen

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Scottish Proverb

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr