If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash.They should stand up..

Lessing, the most honest of theoretical men, dared to say that he took greater delight in the quest for truth than in the truth itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a deeply superficial person.

Andy Warhol

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Ludwig von Mises

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

Jared Diamond

Love is enough: while ye deemed him a-sleeping, There were signs of his coming and sounds of his feet; His touch it was that would bring you to weeping, When the summer was deepest and music most sweet...

William Morris

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

Andy Warhol

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

Aldo Leopold

If you love god, burn a church.

Jello Biafra

What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.

Matthew Arnold

Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on.

Tim McGraw

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

Zooey Deschanel