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"Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being."
Hannah Arendt
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"The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."
Wendell Berry
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"My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid."
Charles Kettering
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"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter."
Nadine Gordimer
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"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."
James Lipton
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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
Benjamin Franklin
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"Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold move which by definition, cannot be planned."
Ross Johnson
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"I ask people what it is they want, and you would be amazed at how few of them know. They say they want to be happy. So I ask them what that happiness looks like, feel like. And they don't know. Now, I believe that the universe responds to energy, and particularly to clarity. If you focus on what you want, things clear up. If you don't, you get stuck in the muddled, fuzzy place."
Oprah Winfrey
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