Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo DaVinci

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Gerhard Kocher

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

Greg Louganis

Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.

John Christian Morgenstern

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Oliver Goldsmith

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Maurice Blanchot

A good husband is healthy and absent.

Japanese Proverb

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

Merton Miller

You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there.

Harry Browne

People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.

Charles Franklin Kettering