The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

You have to be free to fail in this world.

J.K. Rowling

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Leonardo DaVinci

This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Bertrand Russell

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John W. Gardner

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Jeremy Bentham

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.

John Sexton

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,As I foretold you, were all spirits andAre melted into air, into thin air:And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,The solemn temples, the great globe itself,Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolveAnd, like this insubstantial pageant faded,Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuffAs dreams are made on, and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all themoney go?

Steven Wright

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Criss Jami

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Johann von Goethe