There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hermann Hesse

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

Hedy Lamarr

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

John Burroughs

People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?

Eric Davis

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Havelock Ellis

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

William Shakespeare

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

Nadine Gordimer

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Ambrose Bierce

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Richard Branson

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Guy de Maupassant

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates