The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

Lenny Bruce

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.

Blaise Pascal

Of course, he didn't know anything about these Indonesians, or why they would have been there at this moment to save his life, but the fact that they had guns and weren't firing them at him implied that for the moment, at least, they were his dearest friends.

Orson Scott Card

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

George M. Humphrey

They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Emily Dickinson

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

Criss Jami

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Michael Jackson

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Louis Pasteur