“Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Ideas in and of themselves have little value. It is their expression that matters – the particular emanation of the idea with its particular shape and size and bells and whistles.” – Michael Masterson

“Achieving big goals requires you to become a bigger person. You must develop new habits, abilities, skills, and attitudes. You must stretch yourself, and in so doing, you will be forever stretched.” – Vic Johnson

“Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.” – Mikhail Gorbachev

“Prose is architecture, not interior design.” – Ernest Hemingway

“The wise art investor will think of art as an historical artifact, not as an aesthetic object.” – Michael Masterson

“It’s easier to give birth than to think about it.” (Japanese proverb)

“When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.” – Jimmy Carter

“Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don’t need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.” – James Clear

“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” – Charles Darwin