“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.” (Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast)

The best players look the worst in practice.

“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.” (Mae West)

Velcro = Velvet and Crochet

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Saint Paul)

“A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.” (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

"Zeus, who guided men to think,
who has laid it down that wisdom
comes alone through suffering.
Still there drips in sleep against the heart
grief of memory; against
our pleasure we are temperate
From the gods who sit in grandeur
grace comes somehow violent."

(Aeschylus, Agamemnon)

“Suddenly I found myself on Times Square. I had traveled eight thousand miles around the American continent and I was back on Times Square; and right in the middle of a rush hour, too, seeing with my innocent road–eyes the absolute madness and fantastic hoorair of New York with its millions and millions hustling forever for a buck among themselves, the mad dream—grabbing, taking, giving, sighing, dying, just so they could be buried in those awful cemetery cities beyond Long Island City.” (Jack Kerouac)

After Chairman Mao’s 1950s character writing reforms for Chinese characters in the People’s Republic of China, there was a 12.5% reduction in stroke count for the 2000 most popular characters.

“Net—the biggest word in the language of business.” (Herbert Casson)

"Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names." (the Rig Veda)

"In the place where I am now, I look back over my life. I look back at the world I’ve left behind. What message do I want to leave? I want to make sure that you all understand that each and every one of you has a role to play. You may not know it, you may not find it, but your life matters, and you are here for a reason...

"And I just hope that reason will become apparent as you live through your life. I want you to know that, whether or not you find that role that you’re supposed to play, your life does matter, and that every single day you live, you make a difference in the world. And you get to choose the difference that you make." (Jane Goodall's final message to the world, spoken six months before her death)

"Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind." (Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces)

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

Only in Ohio do you get four seasons in one day.

“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)

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

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” (Aristotle Onassis)

"If you aren’t getting happier as you get older, you’re doing it wrong." (Naval Ravikant)

"To slob" is an intransitive verb.