For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God-like?

I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office

Thomas Jefferson

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Jean Rostand

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

Virginia Woolf

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Charles W. Eliot

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

Danica Patrick

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Anthony Robbins

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

Mark Cuban

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Publilius Syrus

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Ron Paul

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

E. M. Cioran

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

Christina Ricci