I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

James T. Mccay

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

Mark Twain

Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.

Lewis H. Lapham

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

Will Rogers

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

Homer

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

Charles Kettering

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

William S. Burroughs

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

Paulo Coelho

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.

Terry Pratchett