Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower , Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953)

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance (Oscar Wilde)

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. (Ambrose Bierce)