"Money is the wise man's religion." (Euripides)

"When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. When they are again become sober they have drawn from the sea all that they brought with them, all that they can bring with them to dry land. I have not a single friend, I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to other artists; I associate with Him without fear; I have always recognized and understood Him and have no fear for my music—it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must be freed by it from all the miseries which the others drag about with themselves." (Ludwig van Beethoven)

"I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know." (Billie Holiday)

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.” (William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying)

"Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet." (Anonymous)

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” (Michelangelo Buonarroti)

“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.” (Edna Woolman Chase)

“Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing.” (Irene Peter)

“Idiot, n: a member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.” (Ambrose Bierce)

"Invest in inflation. It's the only thing going up." (Will Rogers)

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” (The Gospel of Thomas, a non-canonical, Coptic-language, gnostic gospel consisting of 114 sayings from [they say] Jesus; later suppressed as heresy by early church fathers, only to be rediscovered in 1940s Upper Egypt)

"To live outside the law, you must be honest." (Bob Dylan, "Absolutely Sweet Marie")

"America is the sublime and the abominable." (Jean-Pierre Melville)

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” (Adam Smith)

"Marriage is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue." (Mrs. Patrick Campbell)

Slow is smooth.

Smooth is fast.

(Navy SEALs mantra)

“Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.” (Jackson Martindell)

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." (Seneca)

"This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies." (Tina Turner)

You can't spell "sanity" without "insanity."