Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Any poet if he is to survive beyond his 25th year must alter, he must seek new literary influences, he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot
I'm mellower now I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.
Henry Rollins
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
Theodor W. Adorno
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Meister Eckhart
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else
Winston Churchill
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Earl Nightingale
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries but is dead to all the pleasures.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
