I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

Natalie Angier

You have to be free to fail in this world.

J.K. Rowling

The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.

Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the

The customer is our reason for being here.

Source Unknown

I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

George Orwell

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

Mark Hoppus

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

E. M. Forster

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

Paul McCartney

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Michael Fish