Have you any idea how to wake a hibernating Elder?” Machiavelli shook his head. “Mars, what about you? Any advice?” “Yes. Don’t.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

He who retreats lives longer.

Smile like a flower

There is hope for the hopeless.

The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.

Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

You can have it all, but you can't do it all.

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.