I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. – William Blake

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. – Woody Allen

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. – Henry J. Kissinger

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. – William Blake

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. – George Bernard Shaw

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. – Mark Twain

Good wine is a necessity of life for me. – Thomas Jefferson

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. – Aldous Huxley

Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy. – Marshall Field (1835 – 1906)

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. – Caskie Stinnett

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. – John le Carre

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. – Epicurus

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. – Henry David Thoreau

We don’t like their sound. Guitar groups are on the way out. – Decca Records, rejecting the Beatles, in 1962

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. – Woodrow Wilson

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. – Henry Ford

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always strenuously supported the Right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it. – Thomas Paine