Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Source Unknown

My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.

Shia LaBeouf

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter Drucker

I would rather be wise and than right and ignorant.

Chris Page

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

Anon.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Orison Swett Marden

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Adrienne Gusoff

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Aldous Huxley

Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Tom Robbins

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

Jane Smiley

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

Pope Benedict XVI