Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Leonard Cohen

A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Melinda Gates

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

Dan Quayle

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

R. D. Laing

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

Francis Bacon

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

Abraham Lincoln

With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

Richard Stallman

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

Albert Einstein

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Saint Augustine of Hippo