Never confuse motion with action.

-Ernest Hemingway

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

-T.S.Eliot

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

-George S. Patton

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

-Malcolm Forbes

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

-Stephen Vizinczey

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.

-Bill Lemley

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

-Abraham Lincoln

I cannot live without books.

-Thomas Jefferson (to John Adams in 1815)

Being powerful is like being a lady.  If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

-Margaret Thatcher

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

-John Foster Dulles

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

-Henry David Thoreau