Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.

will.i.am

Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men

George Orwell

To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true nature is constant love, unending love, giving love.

Lawrence Crane

It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't.

William Shakespeare

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

Ezra Koenig

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

Read the best books first, or else you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Winston Churchill

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Duane Newcomb

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

Vladimir Putin

Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.

David Mitchell