Vain ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Denis Diderot

Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million

Mark Twain

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

Tadao Ando

In this busy world, we should never be a stranger to love and compassion. It is the fertile soil in the garden of peace.

Steve Maraboli

Wherever we look the dreadful disintegration of the bridges of life, the capillaries and the bodies they have created, is evident, which has been caused by the mechanical and mindless work of man, who has torn away the soul from the Earth's blood - water. The more the engineer endeavors to channel water, of whose spirit and nature he is today still ignorant, by the shortest and straightest route to the sea, the more the flow of water weighs into the bends, the longer its path and the worse the water will become. The spreading of the most terrible disease of all, of cancer , is the necessary consequence of such unnatural regulatory works. These mistaken activities - our work - must legitimately lead to increasingly widespread unemployment, because our present methods of working, which have a purely mechanical basis, are already destroying not only all of wise Nature's formative processes, but first and foremost the growth of the vegetation itself, which is being destroyed even as it grows. The drying up of mountain springs, the change in the whole pattern of motion of the groundwater, and the disturbance in the blood circulation of the organism - Earth - is the direct result of modern forestry practices. The pulse-beat of the Earth was factually arrested by the modern timber production industry. Every economic death of a people is always preceded by the death of its forests. The forest is the habitat of water and as such the habitat of life processes too, whose quality declines as the organic development of the forest is disturbed. Ultimately, due to a law which functions with awesome constancy, it will slowly but surely come around to our turn. Our accustomed way of thinking in many ways, and perhaps even without exception, is opposed to the true workings of Nature. Our work is the embodiment of our will. The spiritual manifestation of this work is its effect.

Viktor Schauberger

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

Chris Pine

Technology favors horrible people.

Doug Coupland

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

David Hockney

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

Marilyn Manson

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.

Publilius Syrus

The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.

Rachel Vincent