What wealth is to the rich, philosophy is to the poor.

There is a city called Pera in the midst of the wine-dark fog of pretension.

Crates with only his wallet and tattered cloak laughed out his life jocosely, as if he had been always at a festival.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

-- Steve Jobs

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

-- Bertrand Russell

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few.

-- Gustav Klimt

To create original products, you need an environment where original people can operate freely.

-- Masaru Ibuka

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza

I arrange my subject as I want, then I begin to paint it like a child.

-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir