One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you

Rick Riordan

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Charles Horton Cooley

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word succeed, you find that it simply means to follow through.

F. W. Nichol

Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career.... Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.

Steve Jobs

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

Jean M. Auel

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

Walter Kaufmann

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom.

Stuart Rose

You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

Neil Gaiman

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

Charlize Theron

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

Lewis Thomas