People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Peace Pilgrim

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

Epictetus

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.

Mark Twain

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Quentin Crisp

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

Mario Monti

For I've been born and I've been wed -- all of man's peril comes of bed.

C. H. Webb

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Leo Buscaglia

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

William Glasser

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

Suzanne Collins

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

William Shakespeare

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Frances Wright

They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.

Paulo Coelho