The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

To will oneself free is already to have freed oneself.

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