“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”

“I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.”

“One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.”

"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world."

"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."

"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own."

I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later. - Miles Davis

“You can do anything with a bayonet - except sit on it.”
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)