Andrew Woods

“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
― Graham Greene, The Third Man

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
― Aristotle

“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”
― Julius Caesar

“Genius is eternal patience. ”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti