If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Alexander Hamilton

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

Virginia Woolf

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Barbara Pym

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

Morrie Schwartz

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

Meister Eckhart

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

Wilbur Smith

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Ronald Reagan

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

Peter Ustinov

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Henry David Thoreau