For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Christopher Morley

Well said, old mole!

William Shakespeare

Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.

Nelson Boswell

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Brian Eno

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that is the satisfaction of writing -- one can impersonate so many people.

Katherine Mansfield

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

Source Unknown

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Thomas Hobbes

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Dickens

La amistad no es menos misteriosa que el amor o que cualquiera de las otras faces de esta confusión que es la vida. He sospechado alguna vez que la única cosa sin misterio es la felicidad, porque se justifica por sí sola.

Jorge Luis Borges

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Rudy Rucker

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Arthur Somers Rache