I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

Richard Dawkins

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

Madeleine Albright

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Honore de Balzac

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

C. Wright Mills

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Jacob Getlar Smith

Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came

Peter De Vries

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

What you really believe about the source of great performance thus becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve

Geoff Colvin

The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical.

Roman Coppola

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

Tadao Ando

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

James Baldwin

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Nicholas Negroponte