Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.
You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).
Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.
The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.
An excess of reason is itself a form of madness
Nice creepy reptile,” Frank said, very aware of the driftwood in his coat pocket. “Nice poisonous, fire-breathing reptile.
But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class. . . In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.
You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you can’t choose to be unaffected by it
Out on the moors, The lonely moors, I roll around in sheep poo. Heathcliff, it's youuuuu, I hate you, I love you tooooo. Let me in, I'm here, it's meeeee, Catheeeeeeee. Look out of your windooooow.