Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.

Roberto Cavalli

The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.

Jean Paul

A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and years of clinging to Jesus while being misunderstood, dismissed, and judged by those she loved most. Me included. It had cost her to love, had cost her much to mother. It always does. But she would tell you that it's worth it, that there is no other way.

Stasi Eldredge

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word meaning it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

James Russell Lowell

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

Proverb

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

Brian Perkins

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

Swami Vivekananda

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

James Buchan

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive ships, cheap equipment in the human cranium, arguments before a road cut.

Stephen Jay Gould

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Gunther Grass