I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Will Durant

Better to burn out than rust out.

Neil Young

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

Norah Jones

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Arthur Erickson

Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.

Johann von Goethe

When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.

Criss Jami

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Judith Viorst

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

Samuel Johnson

Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

John Keats

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Alfred de Vigny

But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should he say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable. How were people, at that rate, to be understood?

Jane Austen