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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars. (J. Paul Getty)

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard)

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. (Ian L. Fleming)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship. (Sharon Stone)

If you are going through hell, keep going. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. (Andrew Marvell)