You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Vladimir Lenin

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

Manal al-Sharif

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

Stephen Vizinczey

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Henry Fielding

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

Kinky Friedman

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Steve Jobs

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Jacob Bronowski

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

John Philip Sousa

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The best interviews -- like the best biographies -- should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

Lynn Barber

To our Creator, a small detail is a big deal.

Todd Stocker