But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

David Ogilvy

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

Al Gore

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Leonard Cohen

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

Thomas Carlyle

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

Paul Kantner

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.

John Morley

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.

Joan Welsh

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Christiane Amanpour

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Henry David Thoreau

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.

Toba Beta

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Rudy Rucker