It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

Orison Swett Marden

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

Lauryn Hill

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.

H. L. Mencken

Acting is happy agony.

Sir Alec Guinness

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

George McGovern

The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

David Hackworth

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

Bruce Schneier

The Deftmenes are mad and the Dumii are sane, thought Snibril, and that's just the same as being mad except that it's quieter. If only you could mix them together, you'd end up with normal people.

Terry Pratchett