"It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it"

“Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.”

“The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for what he saw as the tedious process of achieving consensus through debate and discussion and tried to justify his solitary exercise of power by insisting it was what Iran needed to catch up with lost time. He believed he was more patriotic than anyone else and needed no advice on how best to promote and protect the highest interests of the nation.”

“Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?”

Source : Song: Where Were You, Album: Drive, 2002

“All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.”

Source : A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge pt. 1, sec. 6 (1710)

“Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.”

“By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.”

“Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Most of the time, leaders should laugh at themselves rather than others.”

Source : Perry M. Smith (2002). “Rules and Tools for Leaders (Revised)”, p.26, Penguin