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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Mary Howitt, in Happiness and Misery

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Happiness and Misery

Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Law and Politics

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter F. Drucker, in Success and Failure

I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.

Werner von Braun, in Success and Failure

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Collis P. Huntington, in Altruism and Cynicism

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Gian Vincenzo Gravina, in Altruism and Cynicism

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy, in Success and Failure

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman, in Altruism and Cynicism

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation