Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious.

William Shakespeare

Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.

Charles Augustin SainteBeuve, Pe

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Andy Warhol

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

Thomas Friedman

If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!

Minsky M.A.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Erma Bombeck

You are not trivial.

Cassandra Clare

Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

Sextus Propertius

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

Aleister Crowley

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

Kinky Friedman

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

W. H. Auden