No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and

All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, rushed in in such a multitude that I was borne down by them and had to struggle for every breath I drew.

Charles Dickens

The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.

Blaise Pascal

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

Spike Milligan

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

Gregory Maguire

Knightley Academy stood out against the moonlight in silhouette, a ramshackle collection of chimneys, turrets and gables. Both boys stopped to take in the sight of the manicured lawns and tangled woods, the soaring chapel and the ivy-covered brick of the headmaster's house. They were home. For this, Henry felt, was home. Not some foreign castle encircled by guard towers, but this cozy, bizarre assortment of buildings with its gossiping kitchen maids and eccentric professors and clever students.

Violet Haberdasher

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

Peter Drucker

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Paul Goodman

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Thomas Jefferson

What is to absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

Robert Jordan