Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Confucius

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Mark Twain

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning.

Brian Tracy

To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.

C. E. Montague

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Rem Koolhaas

Erection is chiefly caused by parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to a powder drunk in muscatel

Aristotle

Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.

Cynthia Kersey

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Mary Kay Ash

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

P. J. O'Rourke

The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Thomas Carlyle

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Andre Maurois