?''I froze. Like an idiot I froze. He was staring right at me. (...) He wore an innocent and mesmerizing smile directed right at me. I did my best to ignore it but having a gorgeously naked man staring at me like I was the only girl in the world was impossible to brush off.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

Publilius Syrus

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Charles Caleb Colton

He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals.

Geoff Butler

In travelling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

Stephanie Beacham

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Carlos Ghosn

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Harold S. Geneen

If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us?

John Lancaster Spalding

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Eugene Ionesco

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

Matthew Arnold

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell

The seven deadly sins: food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw