Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

-Bruce Marton

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

-Edward Teller

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

-Sir John Lubbock

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today.

-Henry Ford

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

-George Eliot

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

-Publilius Syrus