We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. (Sir Winston Churchill)

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. (Paul Erdos)

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)