Every positive value has its price in negative terms…The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

- Pablo Picasso

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

- Dale Carnegie

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

- William James

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

- Oscar Wilde

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

- John Steinbeck

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

- Mark Twain

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

- Henry Ward Beecher

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

- Henry Miller

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

- Henry Ford

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

- Helen Keller