Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

--Scott Adams

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

--Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

--Michelangelo

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.”

--Brian Aldiss,

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

--U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen

Intellectual ‘work’ is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

--Mark Twain,

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.

--Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President

If you don’t know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.

--Yogi Berra

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

--Albert Szent-Györgyi Von Nagyrapolt

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

--Yogi Berra

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

-- Mark Twain

We get the belief in the old age of mankind, the belief, at all times harmful, that we are late survivals, mere epigoni.

--Nietzsche

Evidence that contradicts the ruling belief system is held to extraordinary standards, while evidence that entrenches it is uncritically accepted.

--Carl Sagan

The means is the ends in the process of becoming.

- -Mahatma Gandhi

The only constant is change

--Heraclitus

Information is the currency of democracy.

--Thomas Jefferson

There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

--Oscar Levant

The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

-- Mark Twain

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

-- Rachel Carson

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

-- George Orwell

History is a vast early warning system.

--Norman Cousins, (1915-1990)

It is a dangerous business going out your front door.

--JRR Tolkein