A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

Thoughts are circular, they don't take you anywhere. They don't have feet-they can't gain any ground. They can trap you if you don't eventually stand up and make a move.

Katie Kacvinsky

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Lord Chesterfield

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Karl Rove

I will be the one to leave you.

David Levithan

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Niccolo Machiavelli

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.

Kiana Tom

The nail that stands out will be hammered down.

Japanese Proverb

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Alexander Hamilton

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

James Rollins

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau