Favorite Quotes

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

- Calvin Coolidge

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”

- George Orwell

“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."

- Niels Bohr

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one"

- J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."

- Jim Carrey, Bruce Almighty

“When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much."

- John Cleese