Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

Bible

Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

Chinese Proverb

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

Eric Hoffer

Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.

Walter Bagehot

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

John Milton

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Joe Abercrombie

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Shirley MacLaine

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

Erika Slezak

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Heinrich Heine

I saw a close friend of mine the other day...He said, Stephen, why haven't you called me? I said, I can't call everyone I want. My new phone has no five on it. He said, How long have you had it? I said, I don't know...my calendar has no sevens on it.

Steven Wright

Alas for love, if thou wert all, And naught beyond, O Earth!

Felicia Hemans