all of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone

blaise pascal

he who has a why to live can bear almost any how

friedrich nietzsche

jfk

i have offended God and mankind, by doing so little with my life

leonardo da vinci

on his deathbed

mama’s fav treat from wien

my baby

the secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

aldous huxley

no man becomes wise by chance. wisdom is the fruit of long experience, of wounds remembered, of errors understood, and of the steady labor by which a man disciplines his mind to see clearly and his soul to judge rightly.

hilaire belloc

and what does the money machine eat? it eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.

william s. burroughs

edith wharton

napoleon

there is nothing worth doing that is not difficult. ease produces nothing lasting. the work that refines a man is the work that resists him, demanding persistence and the humility to begin again when strength fails.

hilaire belloc

dostoevsky after his death sentence was repealed