Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ouida

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The more I learn about human nature, the more I like my dog.

Mark Twain

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Bill Gates

If you're in love, love to the limit; and if you hate, why hate like the devil and if it's a fight you're in, get where it's hottest and fight like hell - if you don't life's not worth the living.

A. Merritt

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Michel De SaintPierre

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

William Ames

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

Oliver Goldsmith

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

Source Unknown

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

Michel De Certeau