"For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained."

“Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved....this they say is the element and this is the principle of things.... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water....”

“We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.”

“We’ve got customers. We’ve got suppliers. We’ve got employees. We’ve got unions. We’ve got communities. We’ve got all of these things that go into making up whether a business succeeds or fails.”

“Spend regularly and constantly two or three hours of the morning in study and retirement. I do not take upon me to prescribe what you shall employ yourself about. I only propose the passing two or three hours of the twenty-four in private.”

Source : David Berman (2011). “The Great Philosophers:Berkeley: Berkeley”, p.21, Hachette UK

“The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary.”

“If you look at this election, I feel like Donald Trump was speaking a different language to Hillary Clinton.”

“No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.”

“I would like somebody to be hated more than I am.”

Source : "The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption". Book by Clive Foss, 2006.