Quotes from authors passed in 1642
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
Cardinal Richelieu
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
Cardinal Richelieu
George Balanchine 
Billy Ocean 
Hideo Nomo 
Jonathan Cain 
W. Edwards Deming 
Eva Braun 
Tipper Gore 
Atom Egoyan