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“People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.”
— Tom Stoppard
“You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.”
— Epictetus
“The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.”
— Douglas Coupland
“Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.”
— Victor Hugo
“Sweet is the memory of past troubles.”
— Cicero
“I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.”
— Thomas Paine
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
— Carl Jung
“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”
— Buddha
“I don't view Apple or myself as an activist. What we do is for some things where we think we have deep knowledge, or think we do, or a strong point of view, we're not shy. We'll stand up, speak out - even when our voice shakes.”
— Tim Cook
“A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
— Sophia Loren
“Think and grow rich.”
— Napoleon Hill
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”
— George Orwell
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“The passions are the only orators which always persuade.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”
— Victor Hugo
“In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.”
— Tom Stoppard