Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.

Robert Mondavi

I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.

Oscar Wilde

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Tom Stoppard

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

Paul Davies

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Aldous Huxley

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.

Snoop Dogg

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Susan Sontag

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Edwin P. Whipple

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Umberto Eco

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Willie Shoemaker