axiom

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
- Mort Zuckerman

clay

"When you make a mistake that's part of the learning."
- Buddhist potter

"It's a strange business - they pay you to learn."
- Penny Marshall

"Don't trust anyone who hasn't failed."

"I don't really believe in the judging of art, but I thought I'd show up just in case."
- Damien Lewis

words

"This is an emotional moment for me and words seem so futile, so feeble."

- Charlie Chaplin

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."
- NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden

"Since we are forgiven, it's foolish not to forgive."
- Anton Chekhov

Aspect of Medieval Knight training regime:

... run a mile a day in your heavy mail.

you must live until you die

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."

- Robert Frost

"You can't live a truthful life without regret."
- Jamie Lee Curtis

Hippocrates' Psychiatric Rule

1/3 of patients get better on their own; 1/3 of patients need treatment; 1/3 of patients don't get better even with treatment.

"If the average price of homes mirrored the average price of electronics, the average house would now cost $200."
- David Pogue 

"A nation with little regard for its past will do nothing in the future to be remembered."
- Abraham Lincoln

stronger than steel

"A pound of spider silk would stretch around the equator in a single strand."

"If you imagine the worst-case scenario, you've lived it twice."
- Michael J. Fox

"Humour is man's device to escape suffering."
- Buddha

"A Ha and Ha Ha are related industries."
- Del Close

equation

comedy = pain + time
- Lenny Bruce

"The only way to improve the world is to tell a good story."
- Deepak Chopra

Richard Gere's Relais & Chateaux is an hour north of New York City. 

Harry's Cafe is Wall Street's most popular watering hole.

"Gothic architecture was all about height and light."

"... if being in a crowd of unfamiliar people energizes you, you're an extrovert; if it enervates you, you're an introvert."

"If you want to understand America, go to Vegas."

ingredients

"He was three parts optimism and one part nostalgia."
- regarding Ronald Reagan

"When Eric Clapton first heard Jimi Hendrix, he thought he'd be selling shoes in a month."

sixth sense

 

"Learning brings you closer to God."
- Moorish proverb

"Monkeys have tails and Apes don't."

"You do well to weep like a woman over what you failed to defend like a man."
- The mother of a vanquished Muslim son in 15th century Spain

"They've made mistakes, but they're redeemable and whatever they've done is in their past and their future is what matters."
- Workforce Manager

"If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together."
- African proverb

A place to stay in Istanbul here.

"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day."

- Abraham Lincoln

urban planning

"Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings, and new ideas must use old buildings."
- Jane Jacobs

deal with it

"Life is unfair."
- Milton Friedman

"If education was the only thing you need, everyone would be successful."
- Gene Simmons

The last Civil War Union veteran died in 1956. Albert Woolson was 109.

parking your cadillac

theory

"People are here to teach things or learn things. That's it."
- Drew Carey

routine

Arthur Meighen, Canada's 9th Prime Minister, ate the same lunch of onion soup and brown bread daily.

"A man is a single person, but a woman is a nation."
- Islamic proverb

The Ottoman's Michelangelo

Mimar Sinan

"I always play up to my audience."
- Jack Benny

"There's a difference between eating McDonald's hamburgers and selling them."
- Walter Kirn who abandoned the Mormon faith when he was 18 because he was ordered to go on the standard two-year international recruiting mission