A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying
it. - Not sure who's
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
The last time I saw him [British sculptor Henry Moore] ... he talked about his new grandson and showed us drawings in a studio he had just built to extend his workday.... I asked him, ``Now that you're eighty, you must know the secret of life. What is the secret of life?'' With anyone else the answer would have begun with an ironic laugh, but Henry Moore answered me straight: ``The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is -- it must be something you cannot possibly do!''
- Donald Hall
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience ... not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
- Leo Tolstoy
You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
- Robert Henri
you've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt."
- unknown
Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.''
- Dennis Ritchie, Unix co-creator
There can be no deep disappointment where there is no deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.
James Baldwin
You can discover what the enemy fears most by observing the means he uses
to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while
working.
Albert GIacometti
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the
street.
Elbert Hubbard
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