Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit experience and the last effort of genius.

George Sand

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

Salvador Dalí

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

John Adams

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Michel de Montaigne

The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.

Lao Tzu

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

Thomas Jefferson