I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

Alexandre Dumas

It does me no harm for my neighbor to believe in many Gods or no God. It neither robs my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Napoleon Hill

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.

Danny Boyle

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Sir Walter Scott

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Howard Zinn

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

Helen Hunt Jackson

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Edward W. Howe

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Eugenio Montale

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

J. K. Rowling

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

Russell Simmons