Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Luigi Pirandello

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Immanuel Kant

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Interest? What's money interested in?' 'More money

Terry Pratchett

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Roy L. Smith

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

William Pitt

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Ravi Shankar

The general rule, at least, is that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

Xenophon

You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.

George Bernard Shaw