"He who fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does
not become a monster. And if you look long into an abyss, the
abyss also looks into you."

—Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think
only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the
solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

—R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor

“It proves what they always say: Give the public what they want and
they’ll come out for it.”

—Red Skelton, comedian, on the funeral of the Hollywood studio chief Harry Cohn, 1958

“I'd rather be a lamppost in New York than the mayor of Chicago.”

—Jimmy Walker, Mayor of New York, 1925 to 1932

“The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.”

—O. J. Simpson

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

—John F. Kennedy, President, in his inaugural address, January, 20 1961

“Ocian in view! O! the joy.”

—William Clark, explorer, in his journal upon completing the first crossing of the North American continent

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

—Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams, 1816

“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.”

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and author