Jacques Torres

Life is short. Eat dessert first.
- Jacques Torres

Nikos Kazantzakis

“Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”
- Nikos Kazantzakis

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Earl Warren

I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.
- Earl Warren

Galileo Galilei

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forget their use.
- Galileo Galilei

Douglas Adams

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”
- Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (1952 - 2001)

Viktor E. Frankl

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."
- Viktor E. Frankl

Carrie Snow

"A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car."
- Carrie Snow

Karl Albrecht

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
- Karl Albrecht

Napoleon

From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step.
- Napoleon

William Cowper

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
- William Cowper

Arthur Bloch

Every clarification breeds new questions.
- Arthur Bloch

Henny Youngman

A bum asked me "Give me $10 till payday." I asked "When's payday?" He said "I don't know, you're the one who is working!"
- Henny Youngman

Lao-Tzu

“The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'we did it ourselves.'”
- Lao-Tzu (6th-4th century B.C.)

William Faulkner

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

Franz Kafka

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
- Franz Kafka

Cora Harvey Armstrong

"Inside every older lady is a younger lady...wondering what the hell happened."
- Cora Harvey Armstrong

Tony Dorsett

To succeed, You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett

Anonymous

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence.
- Anonymous

Spike Milligan

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.
- Spike Milligan

Mahatma Gandhi

My life is my message.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein

Goethe

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
- Goethe

Socrates

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Socrates

Tao Te Ching

Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
- Tao Te Ching

Bertolt Brecht

"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."
- Bertolt Brecht

Voltaire

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."
- Voltaire

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Albert Einstein

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein

Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mark Twain

Sometimes I feel like the sane person in a community of the mad; sometimes I feel like the one blind man where all others see; the one groping savage in the college of the learned, and always, during service, I feel like a heretic in heaven.
- Mark Twain