It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.

Solomon

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Walter Benjamin

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever.

Lauren Oliver

When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.

Stephen Richards

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

Sam Brownback

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

Joseph Addison

Let us rejoice, O my Beloved! Let us go forth to see ourselves in Thy beauty, To the mountain and the hill, Where the pure water flows: Let us enter into the heart of the thicket. ~ 36

John of the Cross

To do a great right do a little wrong.

William Shakespeare

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Barbara Sher

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

Marc Andreessen