Shortly after I met Bill Gates, Bill's dad asked each of us to write down on a piece of paper one word that would best describe what had helped us the most. Bill and I, without any collaboration at all, each wrote the word "focus.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

Christie Hefner

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Thich Nhat Hanh

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

David Bailey

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

Michael Chang

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Samuel Johnson

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.

Richard Dawkins

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

H. L. Mencken

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

Oscar Wilde

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Hilaire Belloc

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Mark Twain

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein